Christopher Meeks's Writings
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Aug.07.2008
Wordswimmer
I had been asked to write about my writing process for a blog called Wordswimmer. Here's what I wrote:
Everything is eventually related to structure, if you ask me.
As I began as a writer, I didn't even think about structure. But as soon as I started teaching narrative writing, I realized a few things.
First, in my own first drafts of short stories, I often come...
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Jul.30.2008
Beatrice.com
Like many people of my generation, I wanted to write great stories, important stories—stories that made me rich. Then along came reality: I receive little or no money when my stories are published, but I get two copies of any literary journal I’m in. While that hasn’t helped pay my son’s college bills, I’ve nonetheless been awed that I’ve made it into the...
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'Love At Absolute Zero' is a gift--and one of the many that continue to emerge from the pen and mind and brilliant trait for finding the humor in life that makes him so genuinely fine a writer.”
—Critic Grady Harp, Top-Ten Amazon reviewer
About Christopher
Christopher Meeks writes short fiction and novels. His book of short stories, The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea earned great reviews including the Los Angeles Times ("poignant and wise") and a blurb in Entertainment Weekly that said, "A...
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