Becky Fifield
Fighting Writing: Musings on the Recalcitrant Pen
Does a battle assume there has been a victory? Writing has a threshold that must be crossed, marking the departure from everyday life and...
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Becky Fifield
- Dec 20, 2012
- 1 min
Spaces that Feed the Writing Brain
McSorley’s. 2003. I just finished Dwight Garner’s “A Critic’s Tour of Literary Manhattan” in The New York Times (December 14, 2012). I’m...
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Becky Fifield
- Nov 20, 2012
- 2 min
Transportation Tuesday: Amtrak’s Quiet Car
I was putting together another post on Amtrak when I stumbled across a New York Times Opinion on Amtrak’s Quiet Car by Tim Krieder. The...
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Becky Fifield
- Oct 14, 2012
- 2 min
Writing Fiction – Business Trips Aren’t a Loss
Business travel breeds ideas. My business trips involve some off days, waiting around at my destination, combined with really long...
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Becky Fifield
- Oct 7, 2012
- 2 min
New York Diaries Redux
I moved into New York City proper in 2005, and while my journalling habits have given way to blogging, research writing, and fiction, I...
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Becky Fifield
- Oct 6, 2012
- 1 min
Scenes from a Manhattan Apartment Hunt
No, we aren’t looking to move! But I was flipping through a book in which I kept notes about my apartment hunt in 2005. I had 54...
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Becky Fifield
- Sep 15, 2012
- 1 min
New York Diaries, 1609–2009
Teresa Carpenter does not arrange the selected snippets of text in a chronological order. Instead, she starts with January 1, and then...
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Becky Fifield
- Jul 31, 2012
- 2 min
Transportation Tuesday: Amtrak Fiction
I’ve been working on a short story for years about a friendship slipping into an unfamiliar place. One of these days I’ll fish it out of...
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Becky Fifield
- May 9, 2012
- 2 min
Road Trip – A Snapshot from the Lincoln Highway in Illinois
Preserved original stretch of the Lincoln Highway, between Rochelle and Geneva, Illinois. RL Fifield, 2005. First designated in 1913, the...
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Becky Fifield
- May 9, 2012
- 2 min
Road Trip – A Snapshot from the Lincoln Highway in Illinois
Preserved original stretch of the Lincoln Highway, between Rochelle and Geneva, Illinois. RL Fifield, 2005. First designated in 1913, the...
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Becky Fifield
- Apr 6, 2012
- 2 min
Trainscribbling – Moving and Writing.
Grand Central Terminal. RL Fifield photo. When I leave the city, it’s either on a plane or a train. On a plane, you have little sense of...
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Becky Fifield
- Apr 6, 2012
- 2 min
Trainscribbling – Moving and Writing.
Grand Central Terminal. RL Fifield photo. When I leave the city, it’s either on a plane or a train. On a plane, you have little sense of...
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