Tag: writing process
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Attempts (poem)
I must’ve been difficult to handle alone. My kind of trouble makes bones of bodies, sand of bones.
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It’s Personal: Some Provisional Insight into Creating Fictional Characters through Research
My character Tim is lonely like I imagine my old friend was lonely all those months he spent working for a lumber company, getting on planes and flying across the country.
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Calling though It’s Very Late
I’m a grown man. Married. My wife and I own our home, the cars we drive, and several insurance policies we’ve had drawn up to protect our investments. I own three suits, a blazer I hardly wear, two expensive pairs of brown shoes and one excellent pair of black spit-shined dress shoes. I enjoy the…
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Dancing for Two: One Reason Why this Writer Needs to Connect Early and Often with His Readers
I am working on a scene in which two characters, a young man and a young woman, begin dancing. They are at a wedding; the young man is old friends with the groom. The young woman is dating another of the young man’s friends.
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Finding Creative Space in the Memory of a Room that was Once Nearly Mine
I wrote one of my first successful – I should say “impactful” – stories in an upstairs room that had been recently vacated by a roommate of mine.
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Rejection – Take 2
Two of my students write on their smartphones. Another records himself reading class notes aloud, so he can play the tapes back to himself and study during his hour commute to campus. One student writes her drafts by hand, while another, who also writes by hand sometimes, feels less restricted and can get organzied more easily when composing electronically.…
Patrick Faller 