FORMATTING: (redux)

press the eject + cut the tape

“… if the story is starting to feel very forced, or if you become excited about an alternate possibility for your story, feel free to abandon or modify one of these constraints”

the wild is where we belong

“I find myself writing about family and the little betrayals that can occur between parents and children, brothers and sisters. The family is such fertile terrain for fiction, because there’s shared history there, such intimacy and love, and yet our families are forced on us. No one knows quite how to push our buttons like our family members, and small gestures can take on huge resonances.”

enough of that

“Often my entry into a story is a pair of characters…”

buried alive

“FORMATTING: All manuscripts for this class should include your name …”

hot with fleas & filled with rats

What I’m Reading:

You don’t end up changing the system, the system ends up changing you.

— Omar El Alkad, to Dan Sheehan /“Omar El Akkad on Genocide, Complicit Liberals, and the Terrible Wrath of the West“/ Lithub