Mere minutes after my meeting with Chris Bachelder, he gave what the Conference called a “craft talk” on The Clock in Fiction. The thesis of the lecture was that most excellent stories have a “back wall,” or a point the story will not go past. In other words, if the reader (or the characters, for [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2008
I am Relentless
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Part of the experience of being at the Juniper Writers Conference was meeting with one of the teachers for a manuscript conference. I had to pay an extra couple hundred dollars for it, but it seemed worth it. I sent the first thirty pages of my short prose collection ahead of my arrival; they assigned [...]
Meeting Noy Holland
Saturday, July 19, 2008
I had never heard of Noy Holland before the conference at UMASS, and didn’t know that it was, in fact, she who inadvertently flicked (flicked?) tossed her long blonde hair behind her, draping it onto my bare knees during the Bachelder/Davis conversation.
As a participant in the conference, I chose to attend certain “craft sessions” before [...]