I was born and raised in the Hudson Valley region of New York State, near New York City. I’ve understood the concept of hills and valleys and mountains all of my life, from my childhood excursions to the Catskills. In high school I was an earth science nerd and I’d read up on factoids about [...]
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On writing “what you know”
posted by erin on October 11, 2010
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2010/on-writing-what-you-know
Writing Workshop Wednesday: Poetry
The Wednesday workshop wisdom continues! This week… Poetry workshop take-aways // or, why this novelist kept taking so many darned poetry workshops. I think in novels. As a kid, I thought, Oh, I think in stories. No. I learned later: I think in novels. In my first workshop at 15, I told my advisor that [...]
posted by erin on August 11, 2010
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2010/workshop-weds-2
The first installment of Writing Workshop Wednesday!
I was thinking lately that I’ve spent a lot of time in workshops and have [probably] had every kind of experience in one. I figured I may as well share some of the many things I’ve learned — and ask you all to dive in and offer your own advice for others! I want to [...]
posted by erin on August 4, 2010
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2010/workshop-weds-1
Two days
I won’t make my deadline. (The deadline finish the WiP’s rewrite by January 1st.) I’ve known this for a while now and I’ve made my peace with it. The husband, too. He chuckled and said, “It was fictitious. You know you’re on a deadline, but I’m trying to remind you that the deadline isn’t ‘in [...]
posted by erin on December 29, 2009
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2009/two-days
