Roundup: Bold Beginnings & Sensational Starts
In our Roundups segment, we’re looking back at all the great posts since the blog started in 2009. We explore posts from our archives as well as other top literary magazines and websites, centered on a certain theme to help you jump-start your week.
Autumn is upon us and students everywhere are getting into the routine of yet another semester. You may have started a new job or a life in a completely new city. Maybe you’ve just cracked open book you’ve yet to read. Either way, you’ve begun! And we hope it’s the start of something great.
Here, we’ve compiled some blog posts and things found across the Internet with fresh starts in mind.
From Ploughshares
- Looking for a way to (re)start your writing routine? Try Jordan Kushins’ series “For Those About to Write (We Salute You) #1: Pencil On Paper.”
- Coming up with a good beginning is often the hardest part. So make it count with some advice from Sarah Banse’s “From the Slush Pile…”
- While starting the revision process of a story is always important, Thomas Lee reminds us that it’s also important to stop.
- In “Episodia 1.7: Lost Novels and Love Triangles,” A.J. Kandathil remarks on the beauty of a beginning, “It’s always thrilling to be at the beginning of something, when all you see are possibilities instead of flaws.”
- Jenny Lawson’s “humble beginnings (blogginnings?)” have landed her a memoir to call her own.
From around the Web
- For the first time in its eight year history, The Atlantic Wire reports that the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” list is all women!
- NPR interviews Cheryl Strayed on how her latest book prompted a reunion with her long-lost half-sister.
- If you’re curious about new books hitting the shelves this season, The Millions has compiled a “Most Anticipated” list for the rest of 2013!
- An essay by Bernadette Murphy on The Rumpus examines the last “first day” of a long-practiced routine. If you’re craving some new creative nonfiction, give “The Last First Day” a read!
