This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. When my final copies of my memoir Better arrived, I opened the box with my five-year-old son, Theo, and turned to the final page of acknowledgements to show him, Look, there’s your name. In that acknowledgement, I make a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-05-02 08:59:47 UTC ]
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. In The Art of Subtext, Charles Baxter writes, “A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in the direction of the unsaid and the unseen.” In 2017, I sold... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-05-17 08:55:10 UTC ]
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. The sext, even more than short stories or poems or novels, is the ultimate plea for a reader’s attention. Stakes are rarely so high. John Gardner’s fictive dream is never more delicate and alive than when it’s being... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-09-29 08:30:13 UTC ]
The following first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. * While writing my first novel, I was hungry for advice, like many young writers, and soaked up tenets like write every day or wake up before work to go to your desk or hit 1000 words every session. But these... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-11-12 09:55:05 UTC ]