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A Story I Had to Unlearn: How Flash Fiction Changed My Writing
Flash fiction is everywhere lately. At least, I’m seeing it much more often than ever before. Not as a sudden trend, exactly, but as a steady presence that keeps surfacing in places where writing lives. It shows up on Substack, in literary magazines, writing competitions, and even on social media. The term “flash fiction” is…
What Makes Revision So Hard?
There is no shortage of craft books, poetry guides, artist’s manuals, and Substack thinkpieces articulating the power of poetic revision. Everyone, myself included, thinks they have something wise to impart about the process of shaping sand into sandcastles, clay into sculptures, or whatever analogy you want to represent the act of revision. Still, none of…
Excavating Memories in Creative Nonfiction
When I was a very little kid, my parents took me to see the Rolling Stones in concert in Hartford, Connecticut. It was the Steel Wheels tour, I got a t-shirt (that I am devastated to have since lost), and it marked a certain coolness on behalf of both my family and Mick Jagger. As…