Author: Ron Koertge

I was writing to a friend of mine who is starting to re-think her novel, so I suggested 10-15 early pages of nothing but dialogue.   Only dialogue.  No narrative tags, no scene-despcription.  Just dialogue....

I know, I know, but I can’t help it.  It’s about the first chapter again.  Or the first page.  Or the first stanza. I was helping out a young writer (like Fitzgerald, I guess), but didn’t have to...

When Kelly and I started our excellent (thanks to the students for making it that way) workshop a couple of weeks ago, we did the usual ice-breaking go-around-the-room thing but this time with a twist.  Rather than a funny...

Remember The Drawer?  That place to put poems and stories until they cure?   Or are forgotten.  But forgotten in the best sense?  (And do you like all those fragments, you grammar cops?) Well, sign me up as...

As most of you know, I write something every day and am not afraid to fail since most days that’s exactly what I do.  As a modus vivendi I value insouciance, so I shrug and figure I’ll do better next time....