Friday night my friend, Hypster Mom, hosted a sort of literary salon featuring J.C. Hallman author of many things, most recently the short story collection The Hospital for Bad Poets.
Before he read a story he talked a little about a book he edited called, The Story About the Story. Specifically he talked about the [...]
Writing
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Jan 10
Days of Crank & Crabbiness
Monday I fell into some January funk and it took a long time to get climb out of it (when you have adult-onset ADD two days is a very long time). The funk yesterday was so awful that I totally shut down. I spent the day whining, taking a hot bath, and napping.
It was [...]
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Jan 10
Two resolutions: One for me & one for the Internet
I’m a little cranky because I just read an awful graphic novel and bad books make me angry. There might be extra vitriol in tonight’s rant when normally there would just be the regular amount of vitriol. You’ve been warned.
Actually, graphic novels have something to do with my resolution. Long about yesterday I decided I [...]
5
Jan 10
Deserving of your attention
In case you missed it, yesterday MinnPost named I Will Dare was one of 10 Minnesota blogs worthy of your attention in 2010. Can I get a hell yeah?
Getting this kind of recognition is pretty awesome. That’s probably a weird thing to say. Or maybe it’s immodest. I don’t care. It’s awesome. I work [...]
6
Dec 09
It happened to me therefore it is good
For most of this term at The Loft, I feel as though I’ve been doing battle with a faction of the class who seems to think that fiction can only be truly enjoyed or understood if you have some personal experience with the topic at hand. I’d even go so far as to say that [...]
15
Nov 09
A moral failing on my part
Some of the heartiest of Minnesotans might thing it was a moral failing on my part to take off virtually an entire week because of a cold. Those people can blow me. There is nothing fun about being sick and there’s nothing good or productive about doing a half-ass job while being sick.
No, taking a [...]
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Oct 09
Love you in the fall
Have I mentioned lately that I’m in love with my Loft class this fall? Love. I can’t even remember the last time I had a class that I enjoyed this much. It might have been the class with The Grad and the Hottie, and I can’t even remember when that was. It was a long [...]
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Oct 09
A few things about the past few days
I workshopped my ghost story again last night. The class was pretty evenly split on the whole second person vs. anything but second person and ghost vs. no ghost issue. I’m not sure what to make of that. But I do know my story and I’m keeping the second person and the ghost.
For the first [...]
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Sep 09
A classroom exchange
My new writing class is full of mouthy spitfires. If I only I could tongue kiss each of them, because I love mouthy spitfires (though of a few of them are interrupters which makes me want to elbow them in the ribs). Witness this exchange during a rather passionate discussion of Sarah Cole: A Type [...]
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Aug 09
Saying it outloud
After Sunday’s OxPod recording, my friend Tony made a crack about how I’m the busiest unemployed person he’s ever heard of.
He’s right. Between being Super Aunt Jodi’s daycare service, class at The Loft, and, well, working freelance, this summer’s bout of unemployment has been the exact opposite of last summer’s bout.
In fact, I just [...]
7
Aug 09
Keeping the faith
You’ll be happy to know that I stopped pouting. Thanks mostly to the lovely Peabo, and partly to the scalping I got at the salon (god, I really hate using that word. It makes me feel like a frou-frou girlie girl who knows how to apply makeup and properly accessorize. I am not that girl. [...]
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Aug 09
Pouty McPoutpout
You should kick my ass. Seriously, someone should come right over, walk through the door of Supergenius HQ, and kick me right in the butt.
I’ve spent the past day or so pouting because I didn’t get into The Loft’s Mentor program. SEE? Totally worthy of an ass kicking. Any writer to spends any time [...]
