by jeffrey | Sep 1, 2012 | Uncategorized
Imagine you want to create a work of art in fiction writing. Your topic? The nebulous and weighty matter of Identity. Let’s say you draw from all of your life experiences, your belief systems, your worldview. You bring it all to bear. And when it’s all said and done,...
by jeffrey | Aug 27, 2012 | Uncategorized
I am reading a new book by Charles Yu called Sorry Please Thank You. It is a collection of stories that I bought on a lark because of an article I read in Poets & Writers. Yu seems like a super-friendly, quiet sort of fellow and he has a delightfully creative...
by jeffrey | Aug 23, 2012 | Uncategorized
My name is Jeffrey Mays. I had another blog for about 4 years where I posted rants and quirky stuff in an undisciplined way, and anonymously. Because it was just for my own fun, and because of the stage of life I was in, I posted a casserole of topics –...
by jeffrey | Aug 15, 2012 | Uncategorized
(this is part 2 in a discussion about Faulkner’s famous statement “the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself, which alone can make good writing…” Read the short Nobel Prize acceptance speech here.) Stories that reveal the innate...
by jeffrey | Aug 14, 2012 | Uncategorized
“…the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself, which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about…” This famous quote by William Faulkner was spoken at his Nobel Prize acceptance...
by jeffrey | Aug 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
Two women worked in a field. One was very diligent. The other took frequent breaks and was considered a bad laborer. The diligent woman was praised by everyone. She gained a reputation with the farm owners and in the markets. But the other woman had only a few...
