Claire | January 22, 2012
In my latest blogging venture, I’ll be writing regularly (under the oh-so-original title “Claire’s Corner” – let it never be said I was good at naming things) for RE: NEW‘s website. Renew is the youth-oriented branch of Presence, a San-Diego based Chinese ministry, and its goal is to inspire and provide a forum for Christian [...]
Claire | January 5, 2012
Excerpt from a post I wrote for the blog of UCLA’s literary journal once upon a time. Pondering how college and adulthood was changing my relationship to reading. The first half of the post was rough and I now shudder over the title, but this part still holds up I think. ________ The frenetic pace [...]
Claire | January 4, 2012
23 today. How sudden the world is, how splendid, and how sad. I’m coming, I think, more fully to who I am, but part of this is realizing, as I face my own stripped-bare soul in the harsh light of growing up and facing difficulties, how limited I am – how broken. I do not [...]
Claire | September 27, 2011
Taken from here Number One: Two years ago, when I wrote the first of these essays it was about my “egg timer method” of writing. You never saw that essay, but here’s the method: When you don’t want to write, set an egg timer for one hour (or half hour) and sit down to write [...]
Claire | June 15, 2011
I seldom post so-called “Serious Stuff” here, simply because I don’t have the time in the rush of life. But because I was able to write something that dealt with a serious topic recently, and because I do feel strongly about this issue, I thought I’d post it here. This is the essay I wrote [...]
Claire | January 18, 2011
The weather acted upon her strangely. She was unfocused and at ease, yet a lucid clarity of vision came to her so that when she spoke, her words came out with the unfiltered honesty of wisdom. The air floated in through the window with a hint of magic and sleepy adventure, and she felt herself [...]
Claire | December 27, 2010
“Dear Wigleaf, The last time I saw you I was different. You said you wouldn’t love me until I became the person I am now. You said if I loved you, I would make myself into the woman you want. You said you would wait for me to do what needed to be done, that [...]
Claire | April 24, 2010
Resources for creative writers. Websites: Duotrope’s Digest One Word – fix that writer’s block Writer’s FM Byzantine Roads – technical support blog for aspiring writers Poems about writing: “Berryman“, W.S. Merwin Publications: I recommend The Writer’s Chronicle, put out by the AWP, the Association of Writers and Writer’s Programs which is probably the largest organization [...]
Claire | February 4, 2010
“It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.” – Ernest Hemingway Song of the Day: “Say It’s All Over”, Paper Moon Download
Claire | January 4, 2010
“I don’t write to forget what happened; I write to remember. There are worse things in life than painful desire; one of them is to have no desire.” “Educators often justify art courses and creative writing courses on the grounds that self-expression can teach students about themselves. That may be true to some extent, but [...]
