can't help telling stories
Darcy Pattison offers a few good answers in this essay. I think my favorite is about audience. I remember struggling with this concept when I was taking college classes. I read almost anything, so whatever “audience” was, I was pretty sure I wasn’t typical. Pattison’s explanaton would have saved me a lot of time back then.
Is My Story Good or Bad? Wrong Question | Fiction Notes
http://www.darcypattison.com/revision/is-my-story-good-or-bad-wrong-question/
Here’s a reality check that’s both accurate and encouraging.
On Writing With A Day Job, and Expectations Vs. Reality
http://observationdeck.io9.com/on-writing-with-a-day-job-and-expectations-vs-reality-1682791792/+rtgonzalez
Ok, but will they work on Super Bowl Sunday?
5 Distraction-Free Writing Tips and Tools – Writer’s Circle
http://writerscircle.com/2014/09/5-distractionfree-writing-tips-and-tools.html
My experience with Irish writers has often been a sense of eavesdropping on someone’s personal conversation. I can’t explain why I feel this way. I just feel a certain raw nerve in what I’ve read.
In any case, I found eavesdropping on this conversation with Anne Enright enlightening. The world view is different from what most of my US-centric writing friends exhibit.
Anne Enright: How the world reads Irish writers
http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/anne-enright-how-the-world-reads-irish-writers-1.2085668
Do you want to be published in a literary journal? Cheryl Somers offers a dozen tips to help you. She even tells you when — and why — to give it up.
Work-in-Progress: Cheryl Somers Aubin: 12 Tips for Submitting Your Work to Lit Journals
http://www.workinprogressinprogress.com/2015/01/cheryl-somers-aubin-12-tips-for.html?m=1
