by David Colin Carr | Aug 27, 2013 | Uncategorized, Writing
PLEASE DON’T MISS THE END OF THE BLOG WHERE I ASK FOR YOUR OPINION. I suspect this is going to be the first in a series of articles based on the various dances I do as I work with different clients. I don’t mean dances pejoratively. Each writer is distinctive in...
by David Colin Carr | Aug 20, 2013 | Editing, Uncategorized
I’ve written before about the importance of imagination for writers. The fundamental importance. I was delighted by Barbara Kingsolver’s as I read her new Flight Behavior. (As I’m writing this, two orange butterflies – not monarchs, but fritillaries which have a...
by David Colin Carr | Aug 12, 2013 | Editing, Uncategorized
I’ll start the same way I began my last post: I’ve been working with a client on an extraordinary memoir that starts in an idyllic Mennonite farm family in Kentucky and tunnels into a violent marriage that engenders her rage with God. What I heard myself...
by David Colin Carr | Aug 6, 2013 | Editing, Uncategorized
I’ve been working with a client on an extraordinary memoir that starts in an idyllic Mennonite farm family in Kentucky and tunnels into a violent marriage that engenders her rage with God. As we were talking over the first draft, I suggested altering some scenes. “But...