Photo credit: Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Mirrored Room – The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away, 2013. Wood, metal, glass mirrors, plastic, acrylic panel, rubber, LED lighting system, acrylic balls, and water, 287.7 × 415.3 × 415.3 cm. Courtesy of David Zwirner, N.Y. © Yayoi Kusama What if we stopped trying to get it right?… [Read More]
Four things that will trigger your imagination.
Never underestimate the power of a fresh perspective. When your body receives new sensory input, you create new thought patterns, ideas, and responses. Feeling something new — whether that’s walking to work a different way, sleeping at a friend’s house, or eating a jackfruit taco for the first time — can trigger your imagination. That’s… [Read More]
Who are you writing for? Women’s fiction and the Inner Critic
I’ve re-read Ursula K LeGuin’s Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction many times in the past two years for sustenance. In it, she proposes a non-patriarchal story model — story as a container, a thing that holds something else, rather than a hero leading the way. I tried to understand what she meant by practicing the… [Read More]
On sexual harassment in creative writing programs
When I was a young writer, learning how to finish my first short stories, I registered for a week-long creative writing workshop. I was excited about this class, because a fiction author I admired was teaching it. I wanted to write books and publish them, which meant (I thought) that I needed an MFA in… [Read More]
On not having children, and having doubts.
Recently a writer told me that she was feeling ambivalent about having children. She said she wasn’t planning to have kids, but her friends were having some, and now she was starting to feel doubts. She asked if I had any advice for her. I don’t have a dog, yet, but I’ve been looking. Ryan… [Read More]
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