Getting Back on the Horse
Last weekend, after meeting several deadlines (both real and self-imposed) and hacking my way through two difficult revisions during the...
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Eric Sheridan Wyatt
- Sep 19, 2011
- 7 min
Like a Snowflake: The Writing Process
People ask about my process when they find out I’m a writer. “What does that look like? Do you sit at the computer all day?” Yes. Some...
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Eric Sheridan Wyatt
- Sep 16, 2011
- 2 min
Don’t Listen to Your Friends and Family, Writer’s Edition
I read my friend Ken’s blog because I feel bad for him. No, not really. I read Ken’s Inkling Media blog because he consistently delivers...
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Eric Sheridan Wyatt
- Aug 29, 2011
- 3 min
A Strategic Plan? For Writers? Blasphemy!
Strategic planning. Sounds stuffy. Like it comes from corporate America. Like something that is the polar opposite of creativity and the...
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Eric Sheridan Wyatt
- Aug 26, 2011
- 2 min
Community: One Key to Continued Creativity
I’ve been reading a lot, lately, about the various aspects of our lives that contribute to our creativity and our continued dedication to...
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Eric Sheridan Wyatt
- Aug 23, 2011
- 3 min
Unblocker #19: News to Your Mother!
Sometimes we see a news story that causes the fiction writer in us to jump with anticipation. You know, a quirky story, buried somewhere...
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Eric Sheridan Wyatt
- Jul 19, 2011
- 1 min
Tuesday blog: The Three Minute Writer #1 – vBlog
Well, here is the first of a new video blog (vBlog) feature here on the Stories I Read, Stories I Tell blog. In episode #1, I take a...
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Eric Sheridan Wyatt
- Jun 29, 2011
- 1 min
Wednesday Morning: Online Fiction
Instead of just posting ONE story to read online (which will likely be what I do, most Wednesday mornings) I thought I would start with...
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Eric Sheridan Wyatt
- Jun 23, 2011
- 3 min
Words Matter: A Story Starter
If you are like me, and I’m not assuming that you ARE, you’ve read–at some point in your life–a self-help style book about finding your...
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Eric Sheridan Wyatt
- Apr 4, 2011
- 2 min
Drastic Measures: One Way to Re-Write
So, I have this story. It’s called, “The Silence of God is Impossible to Bear”. This was a story that I wrote several years ago, and it...
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Eric Sheridan Wyatt
- Feb 14, 2011
- 3 min
Tracking My Writing: Week Three
So in a previous post I mentioned that I was starting a tracking experiment, where I’m setting an “ideal writing/work week” goal, and...
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Eric Sheridan Wyatt
- Jan 31, 2011
- 2 min
One Week Down, A Lifetime to Go
So, a peak behind the curtain… Last week I blogged that I’ve become more and more convinced that tracking and awareness are key...
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Eric Sheridan Wyatt
- Aug 18, 2010
- 2 min
This IS supposed to be a blog for writers…
So, let me dig into today’s thoughts on writing. I’ve been working on a novel for a while now. That’s pretty typical. Most writers (there...
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Eric Sheridan Wyatt
- Aug 10, 2010
- 5 min
Advice For Writers, And Other Ramblings
I had big plans for the summer. I really did. After I left the May writing residency at Queens University of Charlotte, this is what I...
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Eric Sheridan Wyatt
- Mar 24, 2010
- 6 min
The Execution Trick, by Laura C.J. Owen
This story kicks off American Short Fiction’s winter 2009 issue with a bang. Or a thwack. Or…some other word that deftly uses...
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Eric Sheridan Wyatt
- Mar 8, 2010
- 5 min
Monkeys of the Sea, Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig in Glimmer Train
One of the original goals of starting this new blog was to read and review (and thereby, promote) short fiction appearing in American...
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Eric Sheridan Wyatt
- Feb 24, 2010
- 4 min
What Was She Thinking, by Zoe Heller
I’ll start with a personal aside: During the January residency, I shared the first chapter of my novel in progress with my small reading...
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Eric Sheridan Wyatt
- Feb 11, 2010
- 4 min
You Were Perfectly Fine, by Dorothy Parker
[su_note](Editor’s Note: You can find even more posts about Dorothy Parker’s story, You Were Perfectly Fine, by checking out the Dorothy...
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Eric Sheridan Wyatt
- Feb 6, 2010
- 2 min
New Story, Beta Readers Requested
Hello friends, I’ve finished an updated draft of a story called, Solomon’s Ditch. I need some beta readers, and you can help. (The link...
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Eric Sheridan Wyatt
- Feb 4, 2010
- 5 min
Raymond Carver’s, Where I’m Calling From
Where I’m Calling From, originally appeared in The New Yorker and was later included in two of author Raymond Carver’s short story...
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