Craig

Sounds like a solid day of work.🙂
Ah, the joys of the writing life.

Where I am in the writing process:
One book out on submission and another that is (hopefully) also close to going out. Meanwhile, I’m here every day. Wherever I am with the business side of writing, this is where the joy is for me - at the desk, imagining my way into stories. #writerslife

I have gotten into the habit of talking to goats about my writing woes. They are very attentive listeners.
#goats #writerslife

Finished revising my novel for my agent yesterday afternoon. This morning I burned off my “I hope she likes it” nerves by going on a sunrise scramble up Mount Si. Good medicine for the anxious author.

Looking for a great read? Pick up ELITA by Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum. A beautifully written look at identity and indepence that revolves around a dark mystery.
#books

Fancy writing desk I cobbled together on the road to #AWP25. Not super comfortable, but I got the work done. #writingcommunity

I’m working on a novelette about failure and raccoons - because I heard publishers are jonesing for that kind of thing.

Late February, 5:30pm. The Chicken Man reflects on his choices.

Here, leaning against the wall and staring at your phone is prohibited.
Neither are you allowed to sit on the steps while suffering an existential crisis.
#rules

It really was.🙂

In these troubling times, there was joy in meeting the swimming pigs of Rose Island.

Luckily, my Inner Critic (who is a real jerk) is a late sleeper. I avoid him by hitting the desk before sunrise.

Wishing you a fun and critic-free 1st draft experience.

An important reminder in these turbulent times.

I sent a draft of my lurid picaresque novel to a couple of trusted beta readers today.
This is the tiniest of small victories, but I will celebrate it all the same.

Apparently I type too hard. Or maybe just too much. #writerslife

#flashbackfriday
This was one of my favorite holiday cards I made at Atlas. I always loved bringing my whack-ass ideas to the brilliant @ajpower_studio and seeing how he’d bring them to life.
#holidays

For My Sons, Who are Convinced We’re All Screwed by Craig Holt — BIRCH BARK EDITING Guys, I love you but I have bad news: we are all fucked by Time as surely as we are by our wireless internet providers. And during the flicker and fade of our brief lives we will burn too much time so...

My essay came out in MicroLit Almanac in October, but seemed like it’s worth reposting today.

www.birchbarkediting.com/microlit-alm...

Like most people, when friends told me I should be on this platform I thought, "I should buy a cow so I'll have something to talk about on here besides writing."
No cow yet, but I dare to dream.