Over the past few weeks, I’ve been playing around with flash fiction and its subgenre micro fiction as a way of trying to crystallize my writing. One tangible result is this story, “Lunch break.”
Wouldn’t you know it: two days after telling you that I seldom use the exclamation point, it makes an appearance in the title of a post for the second time in a row.
Its presence is deserved, I think, to help convey the joy of getting published less than a month into this new leg of my writing journey.
“Lunch Break,” a bit of micro fiction I submitted to the website Paragraph Planet, is today’s featured story on the site. Huzzah!
Continue reading “Published!”A lot of writers and other artists have a bit of Thurber in them.
Even when you’re not writing, you’re writing.
I said this recently to a writer-friend who had not been doing much writing lately. My remark was an attempt to help my friend feel better, but I’m not sure it landed as I had hoped. But I’ve thought a lot about that brief exchange, and it prompted me to elaborate on that idea.
The exchange also brought to mind this quip from author, humorist, and cartoonist James Thurber.
Continue reading “Never not writing”I never quite know when I’m not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, “Dammit, Thurber, stop writing.” She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph.
From Conversations with James Thurber, edited by Thomas Fensch
Andy writes! 