I’ll be teaching at Wofford College as part of the Shared Worlds creative writing program, July 20 through August 2. I’m also serving as Assistant Director for this interesting program.

Rising eighth graders through twelfth grade should consider signing up. They still have some spots available. As far as we know, this might be the only such workshop in the country. Check out the website’s FAQ and other info if you have questions. Should be exciting!

I’ll be teaching at Wofford College as part of the Shared Worlds creative writing program, July 20 through August 2. Rising eighth graders through twelfth grade should consider signing up. They still have some spots available. As far as the organizers know, this might be the only such workshop in the country. Check out the website’s FAQ and other info if you have questions. Should be exciting!

Does this cat look like he missed us while we were gone?

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(For detail shots, click here. Questions?)

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This Channel Web article, which includes a few quotes from Ann and one from Jess Nevins, is the best I’ve seen. Some fascinating stuff I didn’t know.

Jeff

Everyone talks about perspiration. Everyone talks about the long slog. Everyone talks about things like endurance and practice.

But what about inspiration?

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I love this list of unfilmable novels.

What would you add to it?

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For a variety of nonbad reasons we will be returning home a little late. Will be posting blawg entries from me phone so no images.

(5) “I thought writing ‘Exterminate all the brutes’ in the margins of your manuscript was cute. You didn’t?”

(4) “I’ve just undergone a religious conversion that has real relevance to your manuscript.”

(3) “My apologies for all the drinking this morning, but I have read your fucking manuscript, so no goddamn worries, huh, kid?”

(2) “You need to be more original. This is the third novella disguised as a scientific monograph about squid that I’ve read this week.”

(1) “Precious bodily fluids. You must preserve them in these jars. These jars and no others. If you wish to progress as a writer. These jars. Those fluids.”

This weekend is the sixth anniversary of the lovely Ann being chained to my bad self in holy matrimony. We will be going to an undisclosed location on the coast well away from intertubes, blawgospears, and the like, there to laze away our time with beaches, balconies, tidal pools, good beer, great food, and lots and lots of reading. I’m taking the books shown above (Charles Baxter’s Burning Down the House, the first two books of Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet, and the special birds volumeof Conjunctions), while Ann’s taking Jack O’Connell’s Box Nine, Jon Fasman’s The Geographer’s Library, and Mary Doria Russell’s Dreamers of the Day.

There will be no further blogging until Tuesday-Wednesday, so in the meantime, tell me: What’re you doing with your weekend, whether you’re in the US or elsewhere? And feel free to pimp your latest projects here, too…