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the Value of Experience

puntitas wrote 1 week ago: Puntitas has organized her favorites into four nice neat folders, one of which is “Writing,” so she … more →

Tags: character, Reflections on Writing, Setting, Research, audience, Cliché, Reading, business of writing, Expenses

Poetic Stress

puntitas wrote 2 weeks ago: Puntitas had a small but important revelation concerning the almond poem and her poetry in general. … more →

Tags: Abstract vs. Concrete, Craft, language, Motivation, Poetry, Reading, Reflections on Writing, writing process

Dusting Off After a Stumble

puntitas wrote 1 month ago: A rejection sure can take the wind out of the old sails. Puntitas was feeling very writerly and acco … more →

Tags: Abstract vs. Concrete, audience, Beginnings, Craft, Creative Nonfiction, imagery, Poetry, Research, Submissions

Other Readers Needed

puntitas wrote 1 month ago: Thanks to a recent bout of insomnia and to a slow work week, Puntitas has been putting a lot of time … more →

Tags: Revision, character, Reflections on Writing, audience, Cliché, Reading, Workshop, Creative Nonfiction

Back to Thinning the Herd

puntitas wrote 1 month ago: Puntitas deleted half of the contents of her nonfiction prose folder. This was hard. In page-length … more →

Tags: Revision, character, Setting, Fiction, writing process, Short Story, Motivation, business of writing, Craft

The Remembered Self

puntitas wrote 1 month ago: Puntitas has begun to reinvent herself. At least that was the subject of today’s unexpected meditati … more →

Tags: Abstract vs. Concrete, character, Craft

Random Thoughts

puntitas wrote 3 months ago: Puntitas has been wrestling with random writerly thoughts, most of them negative since she’s also at … more →

Tags: Poetry, Revision, character, Reflections on Writing, Research, Originality, Cliché, writing process, Reading

She Lives!

puntitas wrote 4 months ago: Puntitas is officially well now. She’s been well since Monday, and she knows she’s well because she’ … more →

Tags: business of writing

Real Adventures Versus Sham Ones

puntitas wrote 6 months ago: Thanks to bad seasonal allergies, which some health insurance companies that Puntitas has applied to … more →

Tags: Endings, Formula Romance, character, .:*Conflict*:., Cliché, Reading, Motivation, mystery novel, Craft

When Even the Muse of Awakening Is Away

puntitas wrote 8 months ago: Puntitas is having an especially unproductive day. She had one appointment this morning, which was n … more →

Tags: Abstract vs. Concrete, business of writing, Fears and Neuroses, language

Greater Submission

puntitas wrote 9 months ago: Puntitas is exhausted. She spent most of her Sunday preparing groups of poems for the mail. The proc … more →

Tags: Poetry, Point Of View, Motivation, business of writing, Fears and Neuroses, Workshop, Submissions

New Year, New Plans

puntitas wrote 10 months ago: I’ve been meaning to post long before now. I’ve got a rough entry about my adventures at the MLA con … more →

Tags: Revision, character, Setting, Research, Fiction, writing process, novella, Novel, business of writing

Sending Out Is Hard to Do

puntitas wrote 11 months ago: Puntitas is having a very cranky moment. She  renewed her ATA membership (money she should have wip … more →

Tags: Beginnings, Motivation, business of writing, Fears and Neuroses, Submissions

His Hand Was Steady, But His Eye Was Odd.

puntitas wrote 11 months ago: Puntitas has had very few writerly thoughts since last post. Mostly this is because I’ve had a flu, … more →

Tags: pacing, Reading, Craft, language

Books and Plots

puntitas wrote 12 months ago: I spent a little time on the computer yesterday, prowling the Library of Congress website. I went to … more →

Tags: Revision, character, Reflections on Writing, Point Of View, audience, .:*Conflict*:., Fiction, Originality, Cliché

The Henry James Dichotomy

puntitas wrote 1 year ago: One of my goals lately has been to become smarter about the theater, so I’ve started attending perfo … more →

Tags: character, Reflections on Writing, Fiction, Cliché, Reading

Personal Fictions

puntitas wrote 1 year ago: Puntitas has been away from her blog because she has been cherishing a number of fictions that make … more →

Tags: Poetry, character, Point Of View, knitting, Fiction, writing process, novella

Art as a Psychopathology1 comment

puntitas wrote 1 year ago: The life of an artist is much maligned. Despite my dreams of becoming a rich and famous writer with … more →

Tags: Reflections on Writing, Beginnings, business of writing

Counting Down

puntitas wrote 1 year ago: After much wasteful procrastination, Puntitas has had a productive weekend. She wrote a new poem las … more →

Tags: Endings, Poetry, Revision, Controlling Idea, pacing, character, Beginnings, Point Of View, Research


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