Book Talk
The Big Idea
Writing Process
On Point of View
Practically the first thing you need to decide when writing fiction is “who is telling this story?” Historically, we novelists have had many options. When novel-writing in English began in…
Book Talk
The Big Idea
Writing Process
Practically the first thing you need to decide when writing fiction is “who is telling this story?” Historically, we novelists have had many options. When novel-writing in English began in…
Nields
The Barn Project
The Big Idea
Writing Process
My house is full of writers. I am sitting in Couchland North; two others are in Couchland South. Writers are at my dining room table, in my music parlor and…
Parenting/The Full Catastrophe
The Big Idea
Writing Process
…Death kept following, tracking us down At least I heard your bluebird sing Now somebody’s got to show their hand Time is an enemy I know you’re long gone; I…
Parenting/The Full Catastrophe
The Big Idea
Writing Process
“What is to give light must endure burning.” -Viktor Frankl If, on the night of June 2nd, you heard a bloodcurdling scream coming from a neighborhood in Northampton, that would…
Journal
The Big Idea
What’s the Big Idea? What happens when your family of origin is too happy? How does one leave one’s family if there is no good reason to? What if there…
The Big Idea
(from the work-in-progress The Big Idea. The book is told from multiple points of view. Here is a piece from Peter Becket, oldest brother, guitarist, songwriter, visionary, pain in the…