April 05, 2018
Three Minutes with The Story of Ash by Gerry LaFemina (Anhinga Press, 2018)
1) If you planted this book in the ground, what would grow?
Irises, potatoes, basil, citrus trees— anything helped by the addition of wood ash to the soil to keep roots healthy, to help repel threats like slugs or rot, and to encourage it to come back stronger next growing season.
This book leans toward our ideal ...
March 21, 2018
Part 1 is here
WHAT IS CRAFT AND WHAT DOES IT DO, PART 2
12. Craft is admission to a club. But as a friend once told me, within the club there’s always another club.
13. Craft is teachable, but is rarely proficiently taught.
14. Revision is the craft through which a writer is able to say and shape who they are.
15. Craft, like the self, is made by culture and reflects culture, and can develop to ...
March 19, 2018
Solarpunk: Here's My Crew
an interview with Alexander Weinstein
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Tom Cassauwers: Do you know solarpunk, and if yes, what is your opinion on it?
Alexander Weinstein: When I first heard about about Solarpunk, I thought: Yes, here’s my crew! Because for a while now I’ve been talking about the utopian story, and stories based on the central mechanism of joy and awe. How do we create the kind of future ...
February 26, 2018
Today we have a guest post from writer and teacher Michael Noll, who is the author of a new craft book: The Writer's Field Guide to the Craft of Fiction. Check it out for your classrooms and yourselves. It's from the great Austin indie press, A Strange Object, and is based off of Noll's popular blog/literary citizenship project, Read to Write Fiction. The Writer's Field Guide to the Craft of Fiction is a practical writing ...
