Cynthia Harrison

Does Francine Prose not have the perfect writerly name? I continue to love Reading Like a Writer; there’s enough meat in here for me to have a year’s worth of entries. I’m well into the “Paragraphs” chapter, but wanted to quote one more thing from “Sentences.” I can’t quote all the fabulous sentences of many…

When you take Sara’s class, she calls you every day. That’s part of her program. And the conversation can be about anything the student wants it to be. Sara’s very intuitive, and she offers advice based on her gut feelings. She told me, for example, that I might want to try writing something completely different–like…

My previous entry is a good example of something I notice all the time–the way my writing life and reality often collide. Usually it isn’t so strong. Most of the time I’ll borrow a trouble from here or a new blouse from there. Often I do it unconsciously. But lately, real life has been storming…

Francine Prose’s new book is proving to be absolutely wonderful. I want to use this whole book, write about her ideas, use her teaching methods in class come January, and use writers I love to inspire my own writing, exactly the way she talks about. And that’s just chapter one… Prose is a fan of…