Writing Under the Writing

Monthly Update: October 2025

It has been a busy summer.

Oct 3 • 

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September 2025

Praying the Dust Off Our Feet

Confession beyond the obvious

Sep 27 • 

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Reflections on the MFA in Creative Writing Program

My time as student and staff

Sep 18 • 

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August 2025

Frankenstein and the Creative Life

When is a creature—I mean, creative piece—ready?

Aug 1 • 

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July 2025

Reading Don Quixote Reading

Reading Fiction as an Antidote to the News and Social Media

Jul 18 • 

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Have to Have

On subtle quirks of language

Jul 11 • 

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Labyrinth Thinking

My family has been busy the last two weeks.

Jul 4 • 

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June 2025

Monthly Update: June 2025

Intro At long last, the school year is over.

Jun 20 • 

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A Blessing for Writers

This week I finished teaching my first creative writing class: “The Sentence.” As is likely a common experience for people teaching a topic for the…

Jun 6 • 

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May 2025

The Fiction Essay

Initial artifacts on a misunderstood art

May 31 • 

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Eliphaz the Careless

On Job and Grief

May 24 • 

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Prayer After Showing Kindness to a Stranger

O Lord, bless this meager work which I have done,

May 17 • 

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