Tag: writing life
One-Question Interviews: Bess Winter and Brenda Pe...
Posted by Cincinnati Review | Jan 26, 2023 | Interviews | 0
One-Question Interviews: Gwen Kirby and Liv Stratm...
Posted by Cincinnati Review | Jan 25, 2023 | Interviews | 0
In Defense of Wish Fulfillment & Romantic Fan...
Posted by Cincinnati Review | Nov 15, 2022 | On Craft | 1
Trapdoors & Lit Fuses: How We End Our Poems
Posted by Cincinnati Review | Oct 27, 2022 | On Craft | 0
Excavating My Voice After PhD Exams
Posted by Cincinnati Review | Oct 13, 2022 | Writing Life | 0
Writers’ Day Jobs: Karen Maner
by Cincinnati Review | Jun 7, 2024 | Writers' Day Jobs | 0
Writer Karen Maner, a membership services manager at a nonprofit.
Read MoreOne-Question Interviews: Bess Winter and Brenda Peynado on Purpose and Validation
by Cincinnati Review | Jan 26, 2023 | Interviews | 0
From agent trouble to 18-hour minimum-wage jobs, Bess Winter and Brenda Peynado know the difficulties of the writer’s life. Over email, they talked to CR about how they reframed the conversation and reclaimed the joy of the craft.
Read MoreOne-Question Interviews: Gwen Kirby and Liv Stratman on Purpose and Validation
by Cincinnati Review | Jan 25, 2023 | Interviews | 0
To kick off the Robert and Adele Schiff Fiction Festival, we talked to authors Gwen Kirby and Liv Stratman about developing an artistic sense of purpose
Read MoreIn Defense of Wish Fulfillment & Romantic Fantasy
by Cincinnati Review | Nov 15, 2022 | On Craft | 1
What can romance teach us about the space between “improbable” and “impossible”?
Read MoreTrapdoors & Lit Fuses: How We End Our Poems
by Cincinnati Review | Oct 27, 2022 | On Craft | 0
How do we choose a poem’s final, resounding lines?
Read MoreExcavating My Voice After PhD Exams
by Cincinnati Review | Oct 13, 2022 | Writing Life | 0
I spent minutes just staring at the cursor blink at me: an infinite tally for the time I was wasting, a constant little wound scarring the page I couldn’t dare to fill.
Read MoreOn Conducting Research and Renegotiating Power
by Cincinnati Review | Sep 16, 2022 | Writing Life | 0
All that I had learned, it seemed, was that I understood nothing. While the Ancients contend that this is the beginning of wisdom, it’s a stressful place for a writer to land after months of research.
Read MoreOn Writing About Place: Appalachia
by Cincinnati Review | Jul 14, 2022 | Writing Life | 0
How can we write against the generalities about places we’ve lived, especially Appalachia?
Read MoreWriters’ Day Jobs: Elizabeth Bales Frank
by Cincinnati Review | Jun 23, 2022 | Writers' Day Jobs | 0
Novelist Elizabeth Bales Frank shares her experiences doing research for law firms.
Read MoreWriters’ Day Jobs: Sean Gill
by Cincinnati Review | Mar 10, 2022 | Writers' Day Jobs | 0
Writer Sean Gill on his day job as a freelance video editor.
Read MoreOn Walking and Writing
by Cincinnati Review | Mar 3, 2022 | Writing Life | 0
How do we walk and wander our way to more inspired writing?
Read MoreOn Taking Breaks from Writing
by Cincinnati Review | Feb 3, 2022 | Writing Life | 0
How do writers decide when to take an intentional break? What keeps them connected to writing, if at all? What helps them return to writing?
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