Countdown to 100 – #2 Top Post

For my 99th post, I am continuing my countdown of the top five Archetype posts to date based on reader response.  The following post is from the December archives and addresses the question that all writers have at one time or another: Is anyone ever going to read this?      Post 99 – #2 Top Post [...]

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Countdown to 100 – #3 Top Post

For my 98th post, I am continuing my countdown of the top five Archetype posts to date based on reader response.  The following post from the November archives conveys the experience and ecstasy of being completely immersed in a literary project.  Post 98 – #3 Top Post The Act of Creation (November 22, 2009) My [...]

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Countdown to 100 – #4 Top Post

For my 97th post, I am continuing my countdown of the top five Archetype posts to date based on reader response.  I appreciate the continued support and comments of Archetype subscribers and followers and hope that these will resonate as much the second time…     Post 97 – #4 Top Post Last Writes (April 28, 2010)  [...]

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Countdown to 100 – #5 Top Post

In observance of my impending 100th post on Archetype, I have mined the archives to present the top five of my ninety-five posts to date based on reader response.  For those of you who have already read these at some point in the past, thank you for your indulgence over the next ten days.  As [...]

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Too Much to Write

The problem, if anything, was precisely the opposite.  I had too much to write:  too many fine and miserable buildings to construct and streets to name and clock towers to set chiming,  too many characters to raise up from the dirt like flowers whose petals I peeled down to the intricate frail organs within,  too [...]

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Pen on Fire

This monthly speaker series, hosted by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, features authors, literary agents, and others involved in the field of writing.  The events take place in the atmospheric Scape Gallery in Corona del Mar and entail readings, literary discussions, and book signings.  On June 8, novelists Aimee Bender (The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, Willful Creatures) [...]

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Call for Submissions – Narrative Magazine

Narrative Magazine’s Spring 2010 Story Contest is now welcoming all forms of literary fiction and nonfiction, including short shorts, short stories, essays, memoirs, photo essays, and excerpts from longer works.  Entries must not exceed 15,000 words and must be unpublished and unrecognized previously for an award in another contest.  The deadline for submission is midnight [...]

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“So write about it.”

As I approach my 100th post on Archetype, I’ve reflected on the last nine months of commentary, criticism, musings, poems, favorite quotes, biographies, portraits, event information, and original fiction and nonfiction excerpts I’ve presented and wondered, as I often do, what is writeaboutable?  What merits the deconstruction and elevation of an experience or insight to [...]

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Upcoming Literary Events

UCI MFA Reading A showcase of original fiction and poetry produced by current graduate students in the distinguished Programs in Writing at the University of California, Irvine will be presented at Bowers Museum at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 22.  Light refreshments will be provided.  Admission is free and open to the public. Workshop: Finding [...]

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The Inkwell’s Mouth

As I prepare to write my final essay of the semester, an analysis of the ancient narrative traditions in Rabih Alameddine’s The Hakawati and Alex Epstein’s Blue Has No South, I’ve become enraptured with classical mythology and Arabic folklore such as Homer’s Odyssey, tales of Orpheus and Eurydice, and The Arabian Nights.   I discovered the following [...]

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