Comments for Christina Baker Kline: Writing/Life

Comment on Guest Blog: Lisa Romeo on Dealing with Rejection by bakerkline

bakerkline — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:08:10 +0000

I don’t know how it was listed, quite honestly …

Comment on Guest Blog: Lisa Romeo on Dealing with Rejection by Yetta

Yetta — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:01:33 +0000

Wonderful blog! I found it while browsing on Yahoo News.

Do you have any tips on how to get listed in Yahoo News?
I’ve been trying for a while but I never seem to get there! Thank you

Comment on “People Don’t Do Such Things!” by Yellow 'Tiger

Yellow 'Tiger — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:12:53 +0000

Exc ellent article. I work in a place where I get to overhear a lot of people’s conversations and also where people act unexpectedly at times, often surprising me, sometimes shocking me. I often write down snatches of conversation and make a note of stuff people do. I keep it in a not-very-organised journal but it is very useful when I’m writing fiction.

Comment on What Chekhov Can Teach Us about Endings by F3 Cycle 76: Doubt | Flash Fiction Friday

F3 Cycle 76: Doubt | Flash Fiction Friday — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:35:44 +0000

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Comment on To Tell the Truth … by Beth Ann

Beth Ann — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:05:34 +0000

Christine, Found your “Truth sign” and plan to use it on my blog with a link to you, of course. Thank you ahead of time!! I saw that you had granted permission to someone else so I hope that I am not overstepping to use it!!! Thank you so much!!!!

Comment on The Best of the Best Advice by Sis

Sis — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:26:06 +0000

So helpful. I have never thought of myself as a writer before, but I’m discovering that I might just be one.

Comment on Writing Tip #11: Don’t Listen to Hackneyed Advice by Sunita singh

Sunita singh — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:37:51 +0000

I chose a daunting subject for my historic fiction.I had to do a lot of research as regards the period,the costumes,the language….it turned out to be quite a challenge.But by the end of it all,not only was I proud of myself but marveled at the very idea that I could write so well about something,which up until now,I was least interested in…I just hope to see my labour of love gets published someday….

Comment on Guest Blog: Laura Schenone on Writing About the Past by Susan Gaissert

Susan Gaissert — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:35:11 +0000

Thank you for this, Laura. I am beginning to write a memoir, and this is excellent advice.

Comment on “People Don’t Do Such Things!” by Lianna

Lianna — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:30:53 +0000

awesome article. Really helped me!

Comment on Moving Day by Delia Scholl

Delia Scholl — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 08:43:16 +0000

I must agree with your comments, the fact’s are there for all to see. Keep up the excellent posts!

Comment on Guest Blog: David Harris Ebenbach on Why He Writes Short Stories by James Everington

James Everington — Sun, 29 May 2011 15:13:44 +0000

Good post! Short stories are an art form in their own right, and not ‘truncated novels’… Also they are great to reread, to see what makes them tick.

Comment on Learning From the Masters by Bete

Bete — Sat, 28 May 2011 22:20:20 +0000

Christina
I love André Lhote. Day by day, more.
I’m learning to paint whith him. Now I’m painting this canvas about “the mariner hurdy-gurdyner”, do you know?
Foi a maneira que encontrei para entender sua pintura: Pintando.Sei que, o melhor é criar, mas quero aprender com ele!
Desculpe, meu inglês é péssimo, se fosse escrever tudo em inglês ficaria até amanhã! rsrsrsrsrs
Kisses
Bete

Comment on To Tell the Truth … by bakerkline

bakerkline — Wed, 04 May 2011 22:19:31 +0000

Christine, go ahead!

Comment on Novel-in-Progress by jessiethought

jessiethought — Wed, 04 May 2011 21:09:10 +0000

This is a great site!

Comment on Novel-in-Progress by jessiethought

jessiethought — Wed, 04 May 2011 21:07:54 +0000

Yes. The novel sounds very interesting!

Comment on Guest Blog: Lisa Romeo on Dealing with Rejection by jessiethought

jessiethought — Wed, 04 May 2011 21:02:14 +0000

It’s hard to get past inner rejection thoughts, though! Great post! It has inspired me.

Comment on About by jessiethought

jessiethought — Wed, 04 May 2011 20:59:02 +0000

These are useful comments.

O.K. …I know, that’s the type of comment somebody who doesn’t care writes! But these are. I have been trying to write a book. It started out just as a project for my friends to read. But now I’m struggling. These comments have helped me realize that I am in that bog of indecision as to where my story arc is going, and that is why I am stuck (partly).

Comment on Writer, Interrupted by MamaMikes Blog » Blog Archive » Enjoying Easter 2011

MamaMikes Blog » Blog Archive » Enjoying Easter 2011 — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 06:56:51 +0000

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Comment on The Essential Elements of Storytelling … according to James Cameron by Star-crossed lovers | eugenias blog

Star-crossed lovers | eugenias blog — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 18:18:56 +0000

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Comment on To Tell the Truth … by Christine Medeiros

Christine Medeiros — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:40:30 +0000

I would like to use your “traffic sign” truth image, but before I do so, I don’t want to infringe on copyright laws. If you need more information on its proposed intentions, I would be happy to share some ideas.
Thank you for your consideration.
Kind Regards, Christine

Comment on Inventing Characters from History by sarah levine simon

sarah levine simon — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 10:17:50 +0000

I like to take characters out of their historical time and portray them, I am a singer writer: Here is my Marcellina from The Marriage of Figaro.

Comment on “Christmas,” Out of Print by familyforest

familyforest — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 20:56:20 +0000

Aloha and thank you for this story!

Here is another one at:

“A Christmas Story” at: http://familyforest.wordpress.com/2010/12/24/a-christmas-story-to-the-white-house/

Merry Christmas!

Comment on Resources for Writers by Susanna Tyagi

Susanna Tyagi — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 01:29:54 +0000

Louise,

I saw what you wrote about your USC students. want to write my own story. No time is not an excuse. The Free times is better because of the letter you wrote. Sometimes it is best not to think too much.

Susanna

Comment on Guest Blog: Judith Lindbergh on Raising the Dead by Irina Skornik

Irina Skornik — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 15:24:59 +0000

Top-notch article it is without doubt. We have been awaiting for this information.

Comment on Guest Blog: Alexandra Enders on Claiming Authority as a Writer by Avril Benedict

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Comment on Five Ways to Jumpstart a Revision by Tips For Adulthood: How To Edit Productively « RealDelia

Tips For Adulthood: How To Edit Productively « RealDelia — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:04:48 +0000

[...] come alive…again. One of my favorite writer/bloggers, Christina Baker Kline, has a host of suggestions for how to jumpstart a revision. My favorite? Write three new openings. In each opening, start from a different moment in the story [...]

Comment on Writing Tip #9: Beg, Borrow, and Steal by Sectional Garage ·

Sectional Garage · — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 12:38:45 +0000

my mom would always frequently visit flower shops because she loves fresh flowers on our house ‘:-

Comment on What We Don’t Know We Know by Stephanie

Stephanie — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 23:02:59 +0000

Thank you, Gayle, for sharing with us this gift of understanding and honesty about the profound loss you experienced. I don’t know which insight I love more, “We don’t know what we know until we write it” or “We write towards what we need to understand.”

Comment on Only Commit by link love: sept 26-oct 2 « waverly and waverly

link love: sept 26-oct 2 « waverly and waverly — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 07:03:55 +0000

[...] Only Commit: The hardest thing for most writers (and artists in general) is to commit to a project — to commit to the idea of that project and its execution. So that’s it then. I’m a commitment-phobe when it comes to my novel. Maybe there’s a support group for people like me. [...]

Comment on To Tell the Truth … by Richard W Scott

Richard W Scott — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:14:40 +0000

Telling the truth in fiction writing is much harder than it seems, but it is something which can be done given thought and practice.

Comment on Great Writing by bre

bre — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:47:32 +0000

I am a 8th grade teacher in NC and came across your site while researching some information about writing techniques for my English class this year. I just wanted to thank you for the great information and articles about writing, and let you know about a site we are putting together to help teachers find trusted resources.

We would love it if you could write a few articles for us, but understand that you are probably busy. I have included a link to the site below in hopes that if you can’t write some resources for us that you can at least link to it, tweet it, or add it to your Facebook profile to help us spread trusted resources throughout the educational community.

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Comment on Great Writing by Christina

Christina — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:51:57 +0000

Thanks for this post and topic. There are so many stories, styles, voices in my head that I think I SHOULD write. These stories include research and history that I’m not that interested in right now. Accepting that will help me move forward and find the story that needs to be written and the voice that it needs to be written in.

Comment on Moving Day by Amy Mitchell

Amy Mitchell — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:34:46 +0000

writing can be your spirit for live, keep posting

Comment on Can We Write about Our Kids? by Sunil Singh

Sunil Singh — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:51:25 +0000

Lisa Gornick has a valid point here, sort of a psychological knot that’s not so easy to untie once it gets entangled. Obviously, writing about one’s kids is not an activity undertaken in a correct direction. Truth can’t be the only thing that justifies and sustains our writing.

Writing always a multi-dimensional product. It has to be like driving on a busy road where avoiding a lot of things matters more than the desire to reach the destination. We can’t maim or kill others in our haste to arrive !

When about oneself, one can always afford to write with greater liberty and candour, and without any attendant heavy cost unlike writing about one’s own kids that may involve a staggering and irretrievable cost at several levels.
A very engaging piece of writing ! Loved it.

Comment on Write Drunk, Edit Sober by Sunil Singh

Sunil Singh — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:21:29 +0000

All writing, if it’s to be authentic, must flow out of a gushing inspiration. What an idea, and so strikingly correct, too ! Yet, the act of edition must proceed out of professional skills and, I must say, acumen.
A fair measure of distance from the time of writing to the time of editing is a good working-principle. It always acts like the cutting and polishing of a diamond ! The final beauty often emerges after some effort and after a while.

Comment on Samuel Beckett on the Obligation to Express by Sunil Singh

Sunil Singh — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:04:23 +0000

The focus leads a writer straight to the heart of the matter and that yields the synthetic meaning of everything but if we go after the details, no matter how rich they are, we end up with a jumbled view of things, missing the essentials in the process.
The second part hints at the inner motivations that must be compelling enough in order to write. All else are, in fact, nothing but poor, dispensible frills.

Comment on How Do You Become Someone Else? by Sunil Singh

Sunil Singh — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 10:52:33 +0000

What a subtle point you have made !

Comment on Great Writing by robin antalek

robin antalek — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:36:37 +0000

I just finished FINNY in one sitting and now I fear I am cyber-stalking Justin Kramon…. what an amazing accomplishment… years in the life of this woman and her family real and adopted… I’m in awe.

Comment on Permission to Write by navdib

navdib — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:59:36 +0000

Guess, I’m a bit lucky that I have enough free time to ramble almost everyday the clutter is in my head and sometimes easy to just write, write and write… but that I guess has come at the expense of not writing for more than a decade I’m rusty and I can hear the wheels creaking as I try and churn my brain with juices that I forgot about but I still write without any care in the world… if not for the simple pleasures of writing, how else would we to express what we really feel deep down inside and yet have the ability to keep it away from those that we intend to

Comment on Great Writing by link love: july 18-july 24 « waverly and waverly

link love: july 18-july 24 « waverly and waverly — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 05:04:35 +0000

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Comment on Great Writing by Cognitive Connection, July 23: The Writing Life When You’re Trying to Get Published, Learning About Slush and Reading Memoirs « a.k.a writer

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:07:11 +0000

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Comment on Great Writing by tahliaN

tahliaN — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:19:44 +0000

Yeah, it’s a good topic Justin. I think that one of the biggest impediments to my initial drafts of ‘Lethal Inheritance’ was that I was trying to write well. In the end I had to go back and just write. Only then did the voice emerged, my style settled.

I figure that in the end we can only write well like ourselves and that’s all we should aspire to.

Comment on Great Writing by amy

amy — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:33:15 +0000

thanks for posting this. I feel like I just spent my first year of my MFA trying to write like the writers everyone agrees are great, and failing miserably. I think I’m going to try your exercise, and see what I learn from listing the authors who are personally meaningful to me.

Comment on Great Writing by Fran

Fran — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:24:36 +0000

Justin — I loved your posting. Just what the doctor ordered for today, as I sit here, realizing how much NOT like Jhumpa Lahiri (one of my favorites) I am. But then there’s always Alice Adams. Thanks Christina, for posting Justin. See you at Gotham, Justin, one of these days.

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Great Writing « Writing and Publishing Finny — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:02:23 +0000

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Comment on Great Writing by lisaromeo

lisaromeo — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:50:10 +0000

Eventually I guess a writer has to get real about their work, and then it takes off, it seems.

Comment on Great Writing by justinkramon

justinkramon — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:55:55 +0000

Christina, thanks so much for the opportunity to do this guest post. It was fun to be a part of your fantastic blog.

And Pam, I’m so glad that my bumbling was helpful to read about. Thanks so much for your comment. I really appreciate it.

Comment on Great Writing by PAM

PAM — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:27:16 +0000

LOVE this. Thanks!

Comment on Learning From the Masters by dario lodi

dario lodi — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:29:24 +0000

Sensitivity in the art but also understanding of the sensation. And translation in universal language. Little important works for himself only.

Comment on Oh Happy Day! by Bonnie F

Bonnie F — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 15:05:05 +0000

Congratulations, Christina! Yay to having your fabulous book out in paperback! And also to your gorgeous new web site.