April Line Writing
AWP Makes Me Sleepy, Inky, and Blissful
There’s a whole bunch of post-AWP posts this morning. Here’s one I like most, my friend Beth wrote it. Beth is my new in-person friend. My friend Jamie is why we know each other. Jamie is a good yenta. The Missouri review posted this. This guy I met is the editor of this great site, […]
A Good Chat, a Good Chap: Writing About Alive People
One of the many things that I laugh at myself about is that I’m 32. There’s really no call for me to be writing a memoir. I’ve got no business. I don’t think it would matter what I was working on, I’d feel like I had no business writing it. Another thing that gives me […]
Shit Got Real or One Bite At a Time
I’ve been writing this post in my head for a while. Been wanting to give you and me a break from the memoir drafting stuff. It is hard, hard, hard to be in self-examination mode, and to stay there, and to stay sane. I spent a lot of last week weeping. Part of it is […]
I learned to bleed: 1991
Hi All, I’m a bit behind. My apologies. Warmly & Enjoy, -April ______________________ Learning to Bleed My mother was confused by the way I chose to alert her that I started my period in December. I’d recently turned eleven, and when I woke up with red stuff in my underpants, I changed them, put a […]
Intro to Bible Quizzing: 1994
This video is a montage from a quizzing tournament in 2006. It was posted on YouTube by WhyteRavyne. And in case you were wondering, Bible Quizzing is like Quiz Bowl, but for church kids. Day in the Life Me, Alicia, John, Justin, and Laura sit in a row on incredibly uncomfortable, cold metal folding chairs. […]
I Buy My Parents Underwear For Christmas: 1998
Kelley took loads of pictures of my family. Here’s one of my parents, probably around the time I bought them underwear for Xmas. I am in the Point Mall because I am in the school chorus and we are having a holiday concert there. This is a strange place, I think, to have a concert, […]
The Day I Lost Jesus: 1997
This is not the juiciest part. But I think maybe the point of this little exercise is giving you the not juiciest part, so maybe you want to read more? The picture is of me & my second car. The names have been changed to protect God’s Lambs. It is me and five grownups, we’ll […]
How I learned about Foreplay: 1994-1995 (Late Bloomer)
As promised, here is the first little excerpt. And here’s a picture from my youth. Thank you, Kelley Stevens. I’m guessing this is around the same time period because I have a similar hair cut as I do now, and because I am not wearing glasses. I started wearing glasses in 1996. In my early-teen […]
What’s Next? or Why I’ve Been a Shitty Blogger and How I Plan to Change
You probably remember the days when I blogged five days a week. And I doubt you’ve missed me. But I’ve missed you. See, I’m in this grad program for writing. It’s mostly online. I go two times a year for about a week to get my physical learning on, then the rest of the time […]
Late 2012, or Self (Publishing) Help: How to Be a Baller Client
Late in 2012, I had the honor of working with two excellent writers. These authors are not excellent because they and I share a bit of commonality in terms of literary goals and aesthetics, they were excellent because they were wonderful to work with. The authors were REKTOK ross, author of YA Inspirational Romance, and […]
