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- It's too early to tweet, and yet here I am. Can I have some money now? #payraise #deluded 5 hours ago
- @The_MOW if I took a break whenever I wrote crappy sentences, I'd never #write anything! It all starts with crappy sentences. 2 days ago
- #Obama smoked pot? Is this news? #seriously? Big fucking deal. I don't care if he owned twenty sweet hookas and got baked everyday. 4 days ago
- @mat_johnson Brooks as an awesome sonofabitch in that movie. 5 days ago
- #amwriting but stupidstupidstupidstupid sentences keep coming out of my pen. #struggling #stupidnovel #stupidwriting #arrrggghhh 5 days ago
- @beth4158 maybe the best band name ever! 5 days ago
- @napalmkristi after midnight is awesome...it's the exact hour that is troublesome. I'm looking forward to reading your final UNH story! 5 days ago
- It's midnight and all the #writing means nothing. 5 days ago
- @zachbraff you want my milkshake? You can't handle my milkshake. That's what I say if I had a similar problem. Which I don't. But if, yeah. 6 days ago
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Category Archives: AWP
Back to the Rough Road of Writing
Yesterday, I showed my fiction classes a clip of an interview with the Irish writer Roddy Doyle. At one point, he’s asked if he likes writing and he says that there are times (winning the Man Booker Prize for instance) … Continue reading
A Final Entry Concerning AWP 2011
So, it comes down to this. I won’t be writing about AWP anymore. Until next year, at least. And then only if I decide to trek to the windy city for four days in February. For anyone who has been … Continue reading
Other Things of Note from AWP
A list: Great reading by Colson Whitehead. He opened by saying, “Normally on Fridays, I spend the afternoon weeping over my failures and regrets, so this is a nice change.” He then read a segment of his novel Sag Harbor, … Continue reading
More from AWP
Some of my favorite things of this years conference: 1. Taking the train. Seriously. I canceled my flights and took the train there and back and I’m sold. The ride was longer, but I arrived more relaxed than I do … Continue reading
Breakfast companions
My former teachers Jill McCorkle and Richard Bausch (in hat) and Pulitzer Prize winning author Richard Ford after a surprising breakfast. ‘Twas a nice way to start the day.
The Overlords
At Union Station, just before my getaway.
Sunrise from the train
On the way home from AWP, woke to see the sun rippling through these trees.
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Letting it Happen
The AWP 2011 Conference has come and gone. Many thousands of writers descended upon the nation’s capital for three (or four, or five in some cases) days of intensive and often exhausting conversations, panels, readings, meetings, greetings, wanderings, searchings, tweetings, … Continue reading
On the bus
On the bus headed to a train. Getting out of New England before the snow messes up all travel. Leaving for AWP a day early. The things I do for the sake of writing. I already miss my family. Listening … Continue reading
