image of Golden Gate Bridge, by Simone Enderlin I fell in love with San Francisco on a family vacation when I was thirteen years old. I decided then that I would live here someday. Fast forward to Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1995. I was doing a brief layover at The University of Fayetteville. Brief enough not to …
Develop these 5 Writing Habits for a More Productive Writing Life Writing advice columns will often tell you to write every day, write a certain number of words a day, keep a journal, or find a writing group. While all of those practices are good, they may not work for you. During my 15 years …
Black Glass, by Karen Joy Fowler Great First Lines in Fiction First published in 1998, this book of short stories by the author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves is just as rich and complex and strange as it was seventeen years ago. If you’ve read it before, it’s worth revisiting, and if you haven’t, …
If I Were 22: A Few Things I’d Tell Myself, If I Could Go Back in Time [aesop_image imgwidth=”70%” img=”https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/800/1*XLmcXfNNFlaZwp9-D3_Y_Q.jpeg” align=”center” lightbox=”on” caption=”Somewhere in Vermont, sometime in the 90s, a few years past the age of 22″ captionposition=”center”] If I were 22, I’d tell myself that all of those journals I painstakingly kept, …