Sometimes the Easy Way Out is Not All That Easy or Why I (really) Chose to Edit an Anthology The truth is I have wanted a book by a writer or writers of color (WOC) about the craft of writing for my own personal use as a WOC, and …
NOTE: this is another in a series of chapter drafts to be included in the book ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO WRITING: A MIXED-RACE WRITER’S JOURNEY (tentative title). This particular chapter took me in a direction I wasn’t planning on traveling, thus the road is windy and full of rocks-the key word as …
OBSESSIVE BEHAVIORS: writing the same story over and over again I started writing in second grade, a jingle. I was paraded from room to room in Standish Elementary School to persuade my peers to give money to public television, or some such cause. In fifth grade, some of us …
Not Good or Bad, better Some of us, particularly American Blacks, grew up with the saying, you’ve got to work twice as hard. Perhaps that was the only way those of us who have been invisible (looked away from) could be seen. (I worked twice as hard in graduate school, …
