Tag: self-reflection
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Reflections on Writing “Authority”
7–10 minutesReflections on writing the short story “Authority.” It was actually the first short story I wrote in college, and one I kept going back to in the hopes of submitting it for publication.
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Reflections on Writing “A Rose of Success”
11–16 minutesReflections on writing “A Rose of Success,” which was a short story assignment to imitate the writing style of Gustave Flaubert.
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Reflections on Writing “A Sleepless Night”
6–9 minutesReflections on writing “A Sleepless Night,” a flash fiction story about a couple dealing with pregnancy loss. The themes of the story reflect the uncertainty and disappointment I was dealing with in regards to my writing portfolio at the time.
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Reflections on Writing “Splinter”
5–8 minutesReflections on writing the flash fiction story “Splinter,” which was an attempt to write more like Hemingway and less like myself.
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Reflections on Writing “An Act of Charity”
5–8 minutesReflections on writing the short story “An Act of Charity,” an overly complicated story about the aftermath of a small heist. If I could have kept one story out of the Legacy Collection, it would have been this one.
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Reflections on Writing “The Second Story on Her Arm”
5–8 minutesReflections on the process, themes, and experiments behind the short story “The Second Story on Her Arm,” a character-driven story told through memory.
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