My escape to a cabin just south of Atlin last week was a huge success. I read on the deck in the sun (in my sleeping bag – it’s not quite warm enough for sunbathing yet) by day, and wrote at night; I finished Jonathan Raban’s excellent Passage to Juneau and got a functional 4000-word [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Writing’
The View from my Writer’s Retreat
Posted in Photos, Updates, tagged Atlin, Writer's Retreat, Writing on March 29, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Build Your Own Writer’s Retreat
Posted in Updates, tagged Writer's Retreat, Writing on March 21, 2011 | 6 Comments »
I just booked two nights in a little log cabin a couple of hours south of Whitehorse, complete with glacier views, a woodstove, and — crucially — an electrical outlet for my laptop. I’ve got a bunch of writing I’m aiming to get done in a short time span, so I figured I’d fashion my [...]
Wallace Stegner: ‘On the Teaching of Creative Writing’
Posted in Tangents, tagged Teaching Writing, Wallace Stegner, Writing, Writing Classes on March 20, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I picked up this little booklet on a whim at the public library last week. It’s the transcript of a Q&A with Stegner, Pulitzer-winning novelist and the founder of Stanford’s creative writing program, and in the same way that fiction writing advice often crosses genre boundaries and offers help to nonfiction writers, this book — [...]
Jonathan Raban’s Writing Retreat
Posted in Tangents, tagged Jonathan Raban, Passage to Juneau, Writing on March 4, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I’m slowly working my way through Raban’s Passage to Juneau, a travel narrative about a sailing voyage from Seattle through the Inside Passage to Alaska. Early in the book, he reveals the role that his boat played before the trip: Though I lived in a house overlooking the canal, and could see from the upstairs [...]
More on David Foster Wallace: Links
Posted in Tangents, tagged David Foster Wallace, Writing on February 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s funny: I went years without hearing about DFW, and now, in the weeks since I finally started reading his work, I see his name everywhere. Wallace comes up in that Jon Krakauer interview I posted last week (apparently Krakauer tried and failed to read “Infinite Jest” at Everest Base Camp) and in this Financial [...]
Five Years Ago This Week…
Posted in Tangents, tagged Writing on January 31, 2011 | 2 Comments »
…my first ever travel story was published in The Ottawa Citizen. Time flies, huh?
Reading David Foster Wallace
Posted in Tangents, tagged Consider the Lobster, David Foster Wallace, Writing on January 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Over the course of a few weeks last year, from mid-November to late December, I read my way through David Foster Wallace’s second essay collection, Consider the Lobster — and I’ve been trying to gather my thoughts and write something coherent about it ever since. Trouble is, I was so overwhelmingly impressed by the book [...]
