Category Archives: Writing

  Short, precise, to the point. Long, dependent clauses, wordy allusions. Hemingway vs. Faulkner. The literary match up of style. Hemingway is credit with writing*: For sale: baby shoes, never worn. A Six word word story that he considered to be his best work. Faulkner, by contrast, is known for occasionally writing page-long sentences that […]

The conference is over and I am suddenly sad that I won’t be roaming the halls of the Park Plaza, looking for conference rooms where writing is celebrated. I learned so much about craft and the business of writing. I even learned how to write a sex scene, then read it in front of the […]