Kansas City, MO- Bookstore City

We hit Kansas City, MO a few weeks ago, during fall break. One of our absolute favorite places, it’s so beautifully laid out. Especially gorgeous in the fall; there’s a reason why they call it the “Paris” of the Midwest.
Of course, we had to hit the bookstores. We were staying in the Westport [...]

Three-Legged NaNoWriMo-A New Game!

While I was writing today, the right front leg from the chair I sit at (the white one in all the pictures from the previous post) suddenly just. . .fell off. I didn’t fall to the floor or anything but it did feel kind of odd.
But then I discovered that my own right front [...]

NaNoWriMo–Getting Ready to Roll

Yep, I’m doing NaNoWriMo this November.  At first I was just going to tell y’all that this blog was probably going to get quiet next month (not like it hasn’t happened before) but I’m going to try and lay in some posts in the draft box before Nov. 1 so I can pop a few up here [...]

Tomorrow’s the Big Day

The National Day of Writing when the National Gallery of writing goes LIVE, October 20, 2009.
It’s not too late to add a piece of your own writing and make history!  Give them anything, ANYTHING!
Grocery lists, poems, homilies, essays, stories, blog posts. . .the possibilities are endless!
Check it out here.
Go, go, go. Time’s a wastin’!
Bye [...]

The Higher Power of Lucky**, or, Narrative Rules

**With apologies to Susan Patron’s Caldecott-winning novel of the same name.
So Wordamour and her husband had a brief junket to Eureka Springs Friday and Saturday, a charming, fall-perfect town in the Ozarks, at a conference where Wordamour’s husband was giving the debut reading of his Van Gogh novel–Wordamour hasn’t even heard it yet. And just [...]

Monda to the rescue

While we were working on the template for John’s blog, my friend and blogger extraordinaire went ahead and designed him a beaut. The font in the masthead is actually Van Gogh’s handwriting! Check it out!
www.creatingvangogh.blogspot.com

Blogging: It Runs in the Family

Announcing a new blog worthy of your reading time: CreatingVanGogh.blogspot.com
Written by none other than my husband, writer John Vanderslice (no, NOT the indie singer, for the millionth time), who is currently wrestling a novel loosely based on Van Gogh into being. I can’t say any more than that because I don’t KNOW any more [...]

What should MFA students demand from their programs, part 2.

So, what would I add to Niles’ list?
1. Teachers who read their students work.
This might sound like a no-brainer, but one might be suspicious of teachers who always want their students to read their work out loud to them. It might be a sign they don’t want to do too much reading beforehand, [...]

What should MFA students demand from their programs? Part 1

Erika Dreifus, over at the esteemed Practicing Writing (seriously, writers, if you don’t read her blog regularly, you need to, she’s on my blogroll ) has drawn my attention to Robert Niles’ post, Eight things that journalism students should demand from their journalism schools. Of course, fellow MFA alum Dreifus wondered aloud “What should [...]

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