There are long expanses of time when I can write all day, every day, any day. I’m blessed in that way. Unfortunately, I waste that time on occasion. Free to write, but not disciplined enough to actually do it. And then, there are weeks when I’ve committed to other things (including subbing three days, having the cable company out to sort out some problems, meeting with a potential tutoring client or two, etc.) and I have a very limited window and yet, I find the time to write

<img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-736" class="size-full wp-image-736 lazyload" title="rooney" src="https://ericswyatt.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/rooney1.jpeg" alt="" width="268" height="188" /> Andy Rooney, Photo Courtesy of the Chicago Tribune. I’m not really a grumpy, grumbly person, usually. But some things have started to get to me. (If you can read this in Andy Rooney’s voice, so much the better!) Last Thursday, for example. I stopped by the post office to mail

I finished my MFA last week. Queens has a “fifth residency” as a component of the low-residency MFA program. The fifth residency is quite different from the first four. During the first four semesters, you come into residency having read a stack of books and armed with your own stacks of stories to workshop. You have to tackle the first four residencies with abandon, hit the ground running at a break-neck pace; there is no choice in that matter. <img class="size-medium wp-ima

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 then comparing that goal to actual writing/work activities I’ve done throughout the week. Basically, the system is working like this: I’ve come up with a “perfect week” schedule that encompasses four areas of my literary pursuits. The four areas are, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Website & New Business Development, and Reading and Research. For me, in

A blog for writers… That’s what my simple mind came up with…A blog for writers. More specifically, I thought I would review and feature short fiction from various literary mags (current fiction) and favorite authors (the old stuff). Short fiction is a form I’m intrigued by and one I attempt, frequently. It is a love. I thought it would be easy to write about a love… But I’ve failed to actually keep up with a consistent blog about short fiction, not because I’m not spending ti