Tag: Lyall Bush
Lyall Bush’s Notes 06/18/2009
I am cutting and pasting again. I mean, with real scissors and paper. I was writing a story that started with a single, clear through-line, but by the time I had generated 15 pages it had become a mass of pages with, um, not so many paragraph breaks...[More]
Posted: June 18th, 2009 under Art Zine, Literary, Take 21.
Tags: Books, Lyall Bush
Phyllis Fletcher 06/04/2009
If you're a minority--ethnic, ability-wise, sexual--the workplace is your daily battlefield. Maybe you win that battle every day through sheer force of personality and charm--or because you're the boss! Regardless of your position, it's likely that you encounter what academics call "microinsults" and "microaggressions" regularly.[More]
Posted: June 4th, 2009 under Literary.
Tags: Books, Lyall Bush, Nancy Guppy, Phyllis Fletcher
Lyall Bush's Notes 04/10/2009
Writers sometimes get upset when too many people ask them where their stories come from, or where they "get" their stories. I understand that -- writers don't want amateurs fooling around in their chem labs. But the answers are almost always interesting anyway, even when they are, "I was daydreaming out the airplane window," or "This guy moved his hands the way my uncle did, which reminded me of Oedipus."[More]
Posted: April 10th, 2009 under Literary.
Tags: Books, Lyall Bush