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6 Responses to “Sharing WIPS, or The Milk of Human Kindness”

  1. Not yet! But I also don’t share my WIP with many friends!

  2. Thank you for the guest post, Victoria! It has really opened my eyes to some things. :)

  3. Kathryn said on

    I picked up my son this a.m. from college (spring break). In exchange for two Big Macs and a large fry, he agreed to read Mirren.

    He got to the cave part….things got ugly quickly. He said it was boring.

    He’s up for adoption if anyone’s interested.

    K

  4. Victoria said on

    I am laughing my head off, Kathryn. Did you tell him, “It’s called Saggy Middle Syndrome, smarty-pants, I know more about it than you do, and Victoria and I have it UNDER CONTROL. Now would you shut up and get to the high-speed part?”

  5. Kathryn said on

    Oh no, Victoria. He knows more than both of us put together – he is taking Creative Writing 101 this semester.

    That’s right. I’m paying for him to criticize me.

    K

  6. Victoria said on

    Well, you pay me for it, too. Wait—uh oh.




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Short story author Scott Warrender is a Mentoring Program client. I have done full Copy, Line, & Developmental Editing on a number of short stories for him, the first of which was his poignant fictional memoir of Africa, ''The Boy With the Newsprint Kite,'' now published in the Foundling Review.

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Bhaichand Patel is the author of two nonfiction books: Chasing the Good Life (Penguin Books India, October, 2006), and Happy Hours (Penguin Books India, October, 2009). I edited Patel's debut novel, When the Streets Were Cold and Dark.


I've edited a number of nonfiction essays for my friend Lucia Orth. (Many years ago, my contribution to Baby Jesus Pawn Shop was simply a peer critique and participation in a standing ovation.)


The poet Chris Ryan is the author of The Bible of Animal Feet (Farfalla Press, 2007). He has recent stories in Pank, Anemone Sidecar, and A Cappella Zoo. I edited Ryan's novel The Ishmael Blade and worked with him on his debut novel Heliophobia and WIP Pogue.