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A useful process from Lynda Barry

Posted on September 26, 2016 | 2 comments

Since attending WRITING THE UNTHINKABLE with Lynda Barry at Omega Institute in July, I’ve used a process Lynda (aka Professor Andretti) described for writing her amazing novel, Cruddy. I adapted the steps a bit to write a short story. My … Continue reading →

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Lynda Barry, Omega Institute workshop (scratching the surface)

Posted on August 3, 2016 | Leave a comment

I can’t yet write deeply/fully about my experience at Lynda Barry’s WRITING THE UNTHINKABLE Omega Institute workshop last week, because it’s all still coalescing, and it’s summertime, and I just don’t have the mind space word space right now.  But I wrote a … Continue reading →

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Everyone gets an A

Posted on May 26, 2017 | Leave a comment

“Everyone gets an A for napping.” —Lynda Barry, 7/25/16, WRITING THE UNTHINKABLE, Rhinebeck, NY.

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Craving Omega (an ode to tahini)

Posted on May 9, 2017 | Leave a comment

Last summer, I went to the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY, for a workshop with Lynda Barry. (I’ve blogged about her here.) The food at Omega was really good and really healthy. There was a lot of tahini, especially in a … Continue reading →

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Short story accepted!

Posted on November 6, 2016 | 2 comments

I’m thrilled to announce that my short story “Curb Day” was accepted for Shadows and Tall Trees 7, forthcoming from Undertow Publications. It’s particularly exciting to me because, as I blogged here, in writing this piece, I adapted a process from Lynda Barry‘s … Continue reading →

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writing from typing, typing from writing, etc.

Posted on September 26, 2016 | Leave a comment

After writing the short story I blogged about here, I tried another Lynda Barry-inspired approach. Looking at a problematic paragraph in my almost-finished novel (a reader had noticed some point of view shifts and was pulled out of the story), rather … Continue reading →

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The self-portraits of ‘Igor Stravinsky’

Posted on August 28, 2016 | Leave a comment

Originally posted on Follow the brush:
It’s been two weeks since ‘Writing the Unthinkable’ with Lynda Barry. And what an incredible experience it was: 5 days in a room with the rockstar hero of my creative world! Writing, drawing, looking,…

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transportation via image

Posted on August 6, 2016 | Leave a comment

A week ago, I returned from the Omega Institute where I attended Lynda Barry‘s 5-day workshop called WRITING THE UNTHINKABLE. (I know that I will be writing about the experience for a long time, so I’m not even trying to encapsulate it all … Continue reading →

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What I might have said at George’s wake

Posted on April 3, 2015 | 2 comments

Last weekend, I was in a roomful of people remembering George Romansic. (If you don’t know who George was, you can read something about his work here and elsewhere on the internet.) Some of his people spoke that night, some played music, … Continue reading →

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Step into the unknown

Posted on February 18, 2015 | 2 comments

It seems I’ve been spending a lot of time lately in the unknown. Or maybe I’ve been here all along, and I’m just now realizing (or accepting) the way my feet feel on that cold, clammy ground. Anyway, a couple … Continue reading →

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