Vanessa Blakeslee
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]’m having one of those rare weeks as a writer. After nearly a month of editing the novel, reading each chapter aloud to catch any typos or clangs I might have missed, then making those corrections, I created a document titled “Final Draft” and said, “it’s done.” Thus followed a long, agonizing weekend of drafting…
Ryan Rivas
by Chris Wiewiora, Nathan Holic, Kristina Kopic and others…
Vanessa Blakeslee
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hat makes a compelling drama? The question unfolded this week as I reread my nearly-completed first novel. The manuscript had been cooling off this summer while I awaited reader feedback on the revisions I made in May (I can’t emphasize enough the value of developing a “cold eye” as you return to a novel-in-progress—setting the…
Rachel Kapitan
a review of Hell Screen by Ryūonsuke Akutagawa
Vanessa Blakeslee
And the body, what about the body? Sometimes it is my favorite child, uncivilized. . . And sometimes my body disgusts me. Filling and emptying it disgusts me. . . . This long struggle to be at home in the body, this difficult friendship. -Jane Kenyon (From “Cages”) [dropcap]I[/dropcap]n my inaugural post I mentioned…
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