Category: writing
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Beautiful Sentences: Jamie Quatro
Augustine’s God-shaped hole. But some people, she says, realize the emptiness itself is God. Jamie Quatro, Fire Sermon.
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Beautiful Sentences: Laura Kolbe
They were small people, with lawny eyebrows and demure hands. Laura Kolbe, “Crimes of Paris.”
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Writerly resolutions, January status
A note on how my writerly resolutions for 2019 are going. On the novel front, I’m not doing so great. Only 1,664 words net gained on the novel. I should be doing over 4,000 words per month to meet my goal (well now, it’s more like 4,400). Short stories are both a bit ahead of…
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Beautiful Sentences: Annie Dillard
Now feelings lasted so long they left stains. Annie Dillard, An American Childhood.
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Beautiful Sentences: Taylor Koekkoek
The way she looked was something I felt in my guts. Taylor Koekkoek, “The Wedding Party.”
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Beautiful Sentences: Annie Dillard
After all, I was the intelligentsia around these parts, single handedly. The intelligentsium. Annie Dillard, An American Childhood.
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Beautiful Sentences: J. Courtney Sullivan
They were surprised that the nuns did not proselytize or try to get them to see the light. They just listened. Some only came once or twice. But the ones who returned again and again began to realize on their own that the conversations were about God, even if He was never mentioned. God through…
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Writerly resolutions for 2019
This will be the year that I finally get a full draft written of We, The Rescued. I currently have 25,000 words written, so it shouldn’t be beyond reason to write another 50K or so. Also, I want to clear out my backlog of half-finished stories and story ideas. My goal is to get a…