In Wyoming, I learned about anxiety. A month in lush digs in the hills where all I had to do was write felt like one of the most generous things I’d been given in my life. At the same time, the psychological reality of this setup was sometimes difficult for me–ultimately in a very beneficial and healing [...]
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An anxious education
Posted by melaniejoya on January 19, 2011
http://motionlessbirds.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/an-anxious-education/
Occidental Hotel: A sense of place
I found Alice Munro’s Friend of My Youth on a bookshelf at Jentel and read it; the book partly inspired the novella I started drafting there–I mean Munro’s concise observations of her characters and their interactions, and also the atmosphere that permeates many of her stories, something old-school, a little dirty or worn beneath an [...]
Posted by melaniejoya on December 28, 2010
http://motionlessbirds.wordpress.com/2010/12/28/occidental-hotel-a-sense-of-place/
It turns out I’m still casting around for a form for the book I am writing. How I know this: it is boring to write character through conversation and little gestures; pacing is boring; well-timed backstory is boring; building momentum is boring. I know it because I’m rereading Humanimal, a Project for Future Children by Bhanu Kapil and am starting The Great [...]
Posted by melaniejoya on September 22, 2010
http://motionlessbirds.wordpress.com/2010/09/22/496/
Jentel!
This week I found out that I’ve been offered a residency at Jentel for a month this autumn! I couldn’t be more excited about this opportunity, which will allow me time to work on my silk-weaving novel and also, I think, to finally finish some short stories that I have notes for revision on but keep [...]
Posted by melaniejoya on March 11, 2010
http://motionlessbirds.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/381/
My novella, City in the River, City in the Forest, available from Hag's Head Press
Incident at Love Canal, with Christine Shea!
