You may belittle horoscopes. As well you probably should because there is no sensible reason to think anything light years away can guide you anywhere in the tiny swath of land that is your life. All the same, I like my horoscope--and I don't see why you have to believe something to enjoy it. Here …
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Maybe You Can Blame Your Parents
Your parents may bequeath you many things... like brown eyes, a house, a fiery personality, an obsession for antiques. My parents have not left me any of those particulars. One thing about writing a separate story every day is that you notice what your repeat. In fact, I think I'm repeating that idea. Was that …
Maybe! Are you surprised?
Surprise may be something you avoid. Years ago, a friend's husband asked me to get his wife out of the house on the day of her surprise birthday party. "It's your birthday! What do you want to do? My treat!" "I want to see Life is Beautiful." "For your birthday? Won't it be depressing?" "Yes! …
Maybe You’re a Writer?
Maybe this happens to you all the time. Yesterday, I was introducing myself to another parent at the roller rink. And a friend standing nearby asked if I were skating too. "Yes," I said. "I've been at my computer so much this week, I need to move." And this father, who knew nothing about me …
Maybe You Won’t Laugh
I may be joking. Interviewer: In your Antologia Personal... Borges: Look here, I want to say that that book is full of misprints. My eyesight is very dim, and the proofreading had to be done by somebody else. Interviewer: I see, biut those are only minor errors, aren't they? Borges: Yes, I know, but they …
I Think–Maybe
I may be wrong about everything. In The Paris Review Interviews Part I, Saul Bellow quotes E.M. Forster, "How do I know what I think until I see what I say?" I read this and thought, "Exactly." This is another reason I write. The more I write, the more I work out the world and …
Maybe a Bad Book
It "may be a very bad book." I read this in The Paris Review: Interviews Part I---- Kurt Vonnegut:...Now, judging from the reviews my latest book, Slapstick, has received, people would like to bounce me out of the literary establishment--send me back where I came from. Interviewer: There were some bad reviews? Vonnegut: Only in …
Maybe Leave the Mistakes
You may be bored by interviews, but I love interviews with writers and artists and scientists. I am reading The Paris Review Interviews: vol. I. Have you read these interviews? My favorite interview so far is with Jorge Luis Borges. Mostly I liked it because Borges came across as someone I'd want to talk to. …
Maybe Not This Time
May be this is too much. I've participated in NaNoWriMo 7 times. And each time I wrote more than 50,000 words. Last year I wrote all 31 stories for Story-a-Day. But finally, this time, I'm stuck. I started a story, but this day has just not been good.. Oh but who cares? Everyone has a …
Maybe Now
I may begin more stories in the present tense. Well, maybe not. But I've used present tense in a few stories, and it seems the most natural way to describe heart break. Like, you have to feel it right now or your cynicism and experience get in the way. Maybe. Could be wrong. What tense …
Marta Bacon 