The Art of Fiction — Writing Exercises from John Gardner (#2)Prompt: Describe the same simple event using the same characters and elements of setting, in five completely different waysApr 6, 2021Apr 6, 2021
The Art of Fiction — Writing Exercises from John Gardner (#1)Prompt: Write the paragraph that would appear in a piece of fiction just before the discovery of a body.Apr 2, 2021Apr 2, 2021
Land of SavagesEddie and I were itching for a fight. For weeks we’d been psyching ourselves up, waxing poetic on blood and guts and glory.Mar 31, 2021Mar 31, 2021
Life is GoodIt happens in front of the pizza shop. The pizza shop where you met your ex-wife back when you were freshmen in high school.Mar 31, 2021Mar 31, 2021
Three Things I Learned from George Saunders’ “A Swim in the Pond in the Rain”Why your deeply embedded notion that art should imitate life, may be half the reason why your prose sucks…Mar 29, 2021Mar 29, 2021
The BarnJohn folded the letter into thirds, covering up the words he did not want to believe: deepest sympathies…regret to inform…tragic loss of…Mar 22, 2021Mar 22, 2021
