writing life

The Mother-Daughter Book Club #3—Foe and I’m Thinking of Ending Things, by Ian Reid
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The Mother-Daughter Book Club #3—Foe and I’m Thinking of Ending Things, by Ian Reid

[You can check out the first Mother/Daughter Book Club post if you’re interested in reading thoughts from me and daughter Evelyn on Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child, Haruki Murakami’s After Dark, and This is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. The second installment is all about Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara…

Writing from Multiple Points of View: An Interview With Rachel Stone, Author of THE BLUE IRIS
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Writing from Multiple Points of View: An Interview With Rachel Stone, Author of THE BLUE IRIS

This past fall I read Rachel Stone’s debut novel, The Blue Iris. As a writing coach, one of the things that captured my interest was the fact that the book was written from multiple points of view—nine, to be exact. It’s not unheard of to do this (Lincoln in the Bardo fan here), but it’s…

The Basics of Writing Productivity

The Basics of Writing Productivity

There’s no shortage of writing productivity advice out there, and this post is mostly a roundup of ideas so that you don’t have to go looking. How you’re going to go about getting your writing done is a process you’re going to have to customize for yourself. You’ll get better at putting systems in place…