Friday Fare is where I post links to the random articles that have resonated with me during the week. Sometimes they make me smarter, sometimes they make me hungry … sometimes they have to do with writing and sometimes they are just plain random.
I decided to stop trying to come up with pithy titles for these “Friday Fare” posts, because if I had my druthers, this article would be entitled “Friday Fare: Spring Has Freakin’ Sprung!” Yeah … I think dates are better.
Here’s what caught my attention this week on the webs:
One of the members of my writers group sent out these 10 writing tips from Flannery O’Connor. The one that resonated with me? Number 6.
My love for L.M. Montgomery is well documented on this blog. This article reveals Ms. Montgomery’s painstaking edits on her final “Green Gables” novel “Rilla of Ingleside.”
I found some future #TBR (To Be Read) material in this article from Psychology Today that talks about the books that prosecutors write after the conclusion of career-making cases.
And finally, because writers need to eat – this recipe from Smitten Kitchen.
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Listening to: Latest obsession is Sturgill Simpson. So much so that I sent this video to my mom to listen to. And this one to my brother. (I actually need to call my dad and tell him about this musician, just haven’t got that far yet.) And then I pre-ordered his new album (THAT COMES OUT TODAY!). And bought his previous album that has this song. I think that pretty much covers how much I adore this musician, you concur?
Reading: I finished “Revival” by Stephen King and really enjoyed it. Just started Brian Freeman’s “Immoral.”
Fiction Update: I actually had one of those grown up, writer moments this week. I had a great day on Sunday of editing. And then I had my writer’s group on Tuesday. I had gotten my reading done for them in advance and really felt like I had achieved some sort of mythical balance between being a writer and providing constructive feedback to my tribe. It was fricking weird. But yes, editing. It’s going. I’m not near as productive as I wish I was, but I’m trying to be as efficient as a full-time worker, mom, wife, etc., can be.
Happy Friday, friends!
michellekubitz 