smokingpen | July 23, 2009
For those reaching this post first, I am a graduate student at Fairfield University in the Master’s of Fine Arts in Writing program and as a part of that program we are having seminars and panels on specific aspects of publishing and law regarding publishing as well as editors, publishers, and etc.
Joe is one of [...]
smokingpen | July 22, 2009
Because I am a first semester student at Fairfield University’s Master’s of Fine Art in Writing program and because this program is in it’s second semester and is trying to get off the ground, and because I think it is interesting and deserves to be shared, I am writing about my experiences, both personal and [...]
smokingpen | July 21, 2009
Today has been great. It always starts with breakfast at 7:45 a.m. which, I think, suggests that we aren’t very sensitive to the whole stereotypical writer working until the wee hours of the morning lifestyle, followed by our writer’s workshops. I will write more about those later.
In case you are unaware of what I am [...]
smokingpen | July 20, 2009
As already stated, I am at Ender’s Island off of Mystic, CT for about ten days. I will make a trip home at the end of this week for around twenty hours to spend time with Erin and CAMPER, but for the most part my life is encompassed by that of the MFA-Writing writer.
Today was [...]
smokingpen | June 29, 2009
I think I often have great plans to do big things. I think some of those big things include my blog and making it more popular and more accessible. Point, I started at the earliest posts editing them so that the links all went somewhere, images were either updated or deleted, and they cross-referenced older [...]
smokingpen | June 24, 2009
I’ve found that some of the things I want to be doing compared to many of the things I need to be doing have kept me out of a state of equilibrium for some time. Months. I like the idea of writing blog entries and have noted that the number of hits I receive a [...]
smokingpen | June 6, 2009
Which, interestingly, might be the title of a book I write at some point. However, not really the point in all of this.
Some years ago I discovered an author (I will not be sharing any names) and the author’s work. I became quickly enamored of the writing and found myself following the individual both online [...]
smokingpen | June 2, 2009
I think one of my biggest pet peeves, right behind people who don’t drive the speed limit and right in front of a highly reviewed and praised work of fiction that ends up being a pile of crap are people who are such big fans of a book or series of books that they immediately [...]
