Category: Writing Advice
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Post #17: Crawling Through the Nearest Window
Doing National Novel Writing Month is exhilarating. I think this is mostly because I’ve never written, outside of education, for a capital “D” Deadline and the need to complete X quantity by Y date is a utilitarian sort of enterprise that’s added a different timbre to this writing experience than…
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Post #6: Revision and the Clock
A writing teacher once told me that you know a piece is done when you can’t stand to look at it anymore. For a long time, I thought that was about the best writing advice I’d ever heard; it distilled a lot of my own beliefs about revision to a…
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Post #3: Flash This
As a novelist (mostly), I come to short stories a bit cautious, a bit weary. After a few years of attempts, I’m warming up to them. Which means that I come to flash fiction somewhere between mildly perplexed and scared shitless. The form, though, is a good counterweight to my…
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Post #2: DFW on the (sub) Brain
The umbrella topic to start the year in my classes has been “What Does it Mean to be Educated?” but after re-reading and playing the audio to my honors seminar, I’m wondering now if the entire theme and the subsequent class periods spent discussing and writing about it wasn’t subconsciously…
Benjamin Roesch 