on freelancing writing with an MFA

There’s a very informative post up on Lisa Romeo’s blog about freelance writing and the MFA. She interviewed a number of editors, agents, and writers on whether having an MFA might help (or hurt) your freelance career.
The answer seems to be (surprise?) that it makes very little difference. As a freelancer who holds an MFA, [...]

rejections, submissions, publications

Jade Park has a post up about waiting for responses to submissions that got me thinking of recent events in my attempts to publish. Even as I write that I realize that “events” sounds dramatic and as though there are just so many happenings when it comes to publishing my work I can’t keep track [...]

Roger Angell on memory

I’m reading Roger Angell’s Let Me Finish.
Angell is of course the octogenarian New Yorker writer/editor best known for a string of books (and numerous New Yorker pieces) on baseball. His mother was a founding editor of the magazine, and his stepfather was the essayist and children’s book author E.B. White. Coming from that sort [...]