Author: Cliff

September 16, 2005

>Cliff is . . .

>Thanks to Erin for this bit of fun. What a great way to invent a character for your next story! Go to Google and…
September 14, 2005

>Bausch’s Ten Commandments of Writing

>Richard Bausch is a terrific teacher. At the Sewanee Writers’ Conference in 2004 his craft lecture consisted of his Ten Commandments of Writing, which…
September 4, 2005

>All’s Well That Ends Well

>To say the least, it’s hard to understand what Helen sees in Bertram. Okay, so the guy’s a Count. Big deal. He’s also a…
August 31, 2005

>Hurricane Disaster

>Please consider making a donation to The Red Cross or other relief organization.
August 31, 2005

>Bread Loaf Reflections

> Bread Loaf was a wonderful experience. Despite the mice in the cabin. And my stubbed toe. The mountain campus is beautiful and I…
August 28, 2005

>Bread Loaf: Day Eleven (The End)

>No lecture on the last day, but my workshop met. Nothing unusual there except that the Fellow assigned to our workshop didn’t show up….
August 27, 2005

>Bread Loaf: Day Ten

>It definitely feels close to the end. The lecture on Friday morning was by San Samantha Chang (the new director of the Iowa Writers…
August 26, 2005

>Bread Loaf: Day Nine

>Nearing the end. That’s both a good thing and a bad thing, because this is such an exhausting but wonderful experience. On Thursday, the…
August 25, 2005

>Bread Loaf: Day Eight

>First up on Wednesday was Lynn Freed’s lecture: On False Starts & Creative Failure: How Not to Begin a Novel When You Don’t Have…
August 24, 2005

>Bread Loaf: Day Seven

>A long one. First up was a lecture by Tom Sleigh on “Some Measure of Insanity: Poetic Language, Versions of the Self, and the…