About Me

jessica handler
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
My first book, "Invisible Sisters: A Memoir" (Public Affairs Books) is in bookstores now! I would love to visit your bookclub, either in person (in the South) or through the magic of electronics. My writing has received a "Special Mention" for a 2008 Pushcart Prize. I was awarded a merit scholarship to the Inaugural "Writers in Paradise" conference, an honorable mention for the Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award, and enjoyed a Fellowship at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts in Rabun Gap, Georgia, and have been honored with the 2009 Peter Taylor Nonfiction Fellowship at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. Locally, I teach workshops in creative writing, memoir, and feature journalism, and am a member of the faculty of an art college, where I teach screenwriting, media history, and other courses of that stripe. I hold an MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte (N.C.) and a B.S. in Communication from Emerson College, in Boston. I used to work in television. I did not push the broom behind the elephant. Usually, I served as mahout - I drove the (allegorical) elephant. If he was SAG or AFTRA. Rock stars do not scare me.
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

The writer's life


This writer's life, anyway. Wouldn't it be great IF I got the writer's draft of the novel done in time to read through over Thanksgiving, when I am full of food and wine and not full of papers to grade, so that I can shove all the scenes and pages around (because I am tactile that way) and find out, for real, what's missing, scene-wise?

How does character W. hustle the small-time reporter?
At what juncture does character L. realize, once and for all, that she has to turn her back on what she's doing?
What about the little brothers?
And character W(2), do we leave his exit ambiguous?
And does character A. ascend in L's place?

For the answer to these, and other questions... Remember "Love of Chair" from The Electric Company?

And.... what about Naomi?
Posted by jessica handler at 8:37 PM

1 comments:

Mickey Dubrow said...

Can't wait to find out the answers.

BTW- Love the new blog design.

October 28, 2009 10:07 PM

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