Tag: fiction
Reality Need Not Apply
“Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.”
― James Van Pelt
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Book Construction
“For as long as I could remember, I’d been making vague and confident assurances that any day I would finish the thing [my book]. If and when I ever did, they would probably feel an almost physical sense of relief. I was like a massively incompetent handyman who’d been up on their roof now for years, trying to take down a gnarled old lightning-struck tree trunk that had fallen against the house, haunting every gathering, all discussions of family business, any attempt they made to sit down together and plan for the future, with the remote but ceaseless whining of my saw.”
― Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys
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Time and Words
Let Your Soul Speak
“Write from the soul, not from some notion about what you think the marketplace wants.The market is fickle; the soul is eternal.”
― Jeffrey Carver
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Did I Do That? Well, Obviously, I Meant To…
“Today’s tangents will become tomorrow’s arcs, and unforeseen connections will tie up your loose ends in a way that will make you want to slap your head and holler at your accidental brilliance.”
― Chris Baty
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Treasure Chest: Full or Empty?
Oceanic U.S.S. Writer
“Writing is a vessel…with readers the ocean and authors as its sails…”
― William Petersen
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Featured Writing Addict: Katie Manning
Katie Manning
Katie Manning began creating poems at age four because she loved to play with the sounds of language. She is now the author of three poetry chapbooks, all published in 2013: The Gospel of the Bleeding Woman (Point Loma Press), I Awake in My Womb (Yellow Flag Press), and Tea with Ezra (Boneset Books). She lives in the Los Angeles area with her husband and son, and she is an Assistant Professor of English at Azusa Pacific University.
What’s Katie’s Genre?
Poetry
What’s Katie’s Inspiration?
“I am inspired by stories, and I especially love to write in the voices of people, real or fictional, whose perspectives have been left out. Motherhood and language itself have also been major inspirations for my poetry.”
What are Katie’s published works?
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The Gospel of the Bleeding Woman imagines a life for an interesting, unnamed biblical character. In these poems, the bleeding woman has a name and gets to tell her own story.
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I Awake in My Womb is a collection of bizarre poems that are based directly on dreams that Katie Manning had immediately before, during, and after pregnancy. Through the shifting images of dream states, these poems explore the fears and joys of impending motherhood.
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Tea with Ezra is a collection of poems that respond to familiar texts: fairy tales, biblical narratives, songs, poems, novels, and more. These are some of Katie Manning’s favorite poems to read aloud to an audience. [Sold out]
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To reach Katie, or buy her published works:
- Facebook: Facebook.com/katiemanningpoet
- Site: katiemanningpoet.com
- Purchase Books: The Gospel of the Bleeding Woman; I Awake in My Womb; Tea with Ezra [Sold out]
- Tell her you heard about her on editingaddict.com!
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