Tag: essays
group name: cr8nonfiction
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August 24, 2007 08:03 PM EDT --
My mom was a very fastidious person when it came to logging the first few years of her children’s lives. I have a very comprehensive . . . more
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August 27, 2007 11:22 PM EDT --
My dad is anal retentive. Any time he comes to visit me I panic and make sure to clean before he arrives. I’ve noticed that most . . . more
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August 22, 2007 10:50 PM EDT --
When I was eight years old my mom was delusional enough to think that she would become a soccer mom. She had a full time job delivering babies, which . . . more
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August 26, 2007 12:03 PM EDT --
F.O.B. is an acronym for Fresh Off the Boat, that first generation children like to use (I like to think of it as a term of endearment) . . . more
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August 23, 2007 10:10 PM EDT --
I went to Japan for the first time in 1991 when I was 12 years old. My dad flew over about 1 week before my mom, brother and I joined him, so the . . . more
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May 11, 2008 10:52 AM EDT --
I've sometimes wondered why I write when I could take the easy route and stifle my creativity as so many people do. Since the advent of blogging and online magazines, artists, political pundits, . . . more
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May 20, 2007 11:31 PM EDT --
In the last few months I've revamped the Creative Nonfiction Group that I'd previously established in the fall of 2006.
I went against my proven Morningside Method of advertising, screening, and . . . more
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November 04, 2006 11:45 PM EST --
The Ojibwe taught us the name of tamarack, this most glorious herald of winter. Now a month after the hardwoods, the tamarack has turned. Nature laid down the last and the finest of her gold. After . . . more
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February 11, 2007 06:01 PM EST --
Part One
Like Divine Right of Kings, there is, apparently, "divine right of social workers" because, according to my sister, she is Right about everything and I am Wrong. . . . more
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April 22, 2007 10:41 AM EDT --
History Is the Adventure, Excitement and Stirring Events from Yesterday’s News
A previous article reveals how comprehensive was the knowledge of a child graduating from eighth grade in . . . more
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November 20, 2007 07:31 PM EST --
I am in the early stages of gathering information that will become a family memoir. As with many other people who've written, or are planning to write a memoir, I think my family is worthy of a book-length . . . more
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May 21, 2008 02:33 PM EDT --
We have openings in all three current Morningside Groups for writers in the metro New York City area.
Morningside Fiction Group has two seats available for male writers in our biweekly Thursday . . . more
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June 16, 2007 03:11 PM EDT --
I reach my hands deep into the freshly tilled soil and fell my way around until my hand strikes a cluster of hard round objects. Smiling I grab of the potatoes as I can and toss them into the large wicker . . . more
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June 19, 2007 10:27 PM EDT --
As we teeter atop the peak of the detiorating barn roof top, gazing at the night sky, I feel close to Rachel. Over the past week, as we worked to make the adjacent one room cabin our home, we have built . . . more
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September 20, 2007 10:25 AM EDT --
Published essayist and creative nonfiction writer in Manhattan seeking one, two, or three home-based published and/or serious freelance writers to meet with during the afternoon, weekday evenings, or weekends . . . more
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November 18, 2007 02:07 PM EST --
Over the past few years, I've tried to define literary voice as I strip away the excess en route to establishing my unique voice. Each person has a way of expressing themselves, and I've . . . more
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December 06, 2007 02:44 PM EST --
I traveled earlier to Houston to help one of my aunts tweak the wake and funeral programs for my granny's funeral this weekend. I had thought I'd also collect some of granny's belongings . . . more
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February 16, 2007 02:43 PM EST --
“There is no great writing, only great rewriting.” Louis D. Brandeis
No matter how strong your writing may already be, all writing can be improved through proper and effective editing. . . . more
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June 16, 2008 12:32 AM EDT --
Are You Getting Enough?
© David Boyne
Something strange and wonder-filled happened to me recently that had not happened to me for a very long time. I got hungry. Really hungry.
Somehow, . . . more
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July 04, 2008 10:59 AM EDT --
Where I Lived
June 10, 2008
© by David Boyne
http://DavidBoyne.com
To Erin, the oracle of the Pannikin Chalkboard, and to Pauline, who knows a Happy Accident is announced, . . . more
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