Author: Kristan

  • The rules

    From “Rough Draft,” the Cincinnati Writers’ Project newsletter: There are precisely two cannots in the writing universe without caveats. 1) You cannot bore your reader, 2) You cannot piss off your editor. It’s that simple. I haven’t actually attended the group yet (that comes on Wednesday) but from their newsletter I can tell two things:…

  • The wisdom of Gwen Stefani

    Sometimes it’s so hard to find what it is I’m trying to say. People might think you can turn creativity on and off, but it’s not like that. It just kinda comes out. A mash-up of all these things you collect in your mind. You never know when it’s going to happen, but when it…

  • (random thought)

    I don’t write to espouse my views. I write to espouse viewing.

  • The End

    Yesterday at 11:20 pm, I accomplished my most important goal for 2007: I finished the first draft of my first novel, The Good Daughters. It’s an amazing feeling to have finished even the first draft! Now my goals for 2008 are to revise The Good Daughters and send it out for publishing, and to write…

  • A writer’s community

    I never took full advantage of the writing community available to me at Carnegie Mellon. Certainly I had friends within it, and some fabulous professors (Hilary Masters and Jane Bernstein in particular), and I loved talking to them about what they were working on, what I was working on, or what we were reading. But…