Year: 2009

  • Continuing with the Best of 2009 Challenge… December 6 Workshop or conference. Was there a conference or workshop you attended that was especially beneficial? Where was it? What did you learn? Alright, this post is a cheat in a lot of ways. First, I only went to one workshop this year: the Kenyon Review Writers…

  • Continuing with the Best of 2009 Challenge… December 4 Book. What book – fiction or non – touched you? Where were you when you read it? Have you bought and given away multiple copies? Hmm. This is a tough one. I read a lot of great books this year. The Secret Life of Bees was…

  • Take a trip (in photos)

    So… It’s December… Wow… Where did the year go?! (Or rather, where did I go this year?) To round out 2009, 20 Something Bloggers is running a Best of 2009 Challenge, in which every day of December is assigned a topic, and bloggers are supposed to write about their best [whatever the topic is] of…

  • The other day, Barbara Samuel at Writer Unboxed wrote a very eloquent post about “The Intersection of Truth and Fiction.” Every story a writer composes somehow emerges from the writer. But where to draw the line between truth and fiction might be hard to distinguish. I am not a character. The character is herself. Some…

  • My 2009 Turkey Day list

    I’m going to cop out a bit and instead of writing a full-on sappy post for Thanksgiving (like moonrat and Jamie Ford did) I’m just going to list a few of the things I am thankful for this year. First and foremost, the health and happiness of my loved ones Second, the delicious Thanksgiving feast…