The most dangerous thing I can do today is offer you praise. Yes, you’ve just worked off your tailbone and you have pages and pages to show for it. NaNoWriMo, whether you’ve followed the estimated 1667 words per day or created your own personal goals for the month, is over. And I really want to […]
The most dangerous thing: by Devi Laskar Read More »
Another night followed by another day and NaNoWriMo will be finished for 2012. If you are feeling stuck, and need a little boost to get you to your word count or help you achieve your personal goal during November, try something from the list below – and push forward! You only have a day to
The finishing touches: by Devi Laskar Read More »
There are writers who know the last sentence of a book before they sit down to write it, and writers who write only to learn what will happen next. There are writers who work meticulously over a sentence, only to erase it, and writers who pour words onto the page, going back later to cull
NaNoTip: Holding Fast: by Elizabeth Stark Read More »
Based on the wonderful writing prompts from Elizabeth’s writing craft class last night, I’m giving everyone a little homework today. Make a list. In fact, make a few, and add them to your story in progress. Don’t explain, just set the timer on your microwave or your watch for 10 minutes and try to finish
Making Lists, and Gathering ingredients: By Devi Laskar Read More »
Dear BWW, happy thanksgiving! As we celebrate the holidays with our families and friends, I wanted to take a moment and thank all of you for your commitment and dedication to the art of writing. I also wanted to repost this thoughtful essay from our very own Robert Ward. I re-read this piece (originally published in the
Revisiting Robert’s Rules for Reading & Writing: (Guest Blog) by Robert Ward Read More »
I was recently listening to Sherman Alexie read and discuss a Jessamyn West story on the New Yorker fiction podcast. When Deborah Treisman, the fiction editor of The New Yorker, asked Alexie if the story had a subtext or was really as simple as it seemed, he said that it definitely had a subtext; in
The Thanksgiving Story as Structure: Ways to View Our Writing: By Elizabeth Stark Read More »
“What could possibly go wrong?” This question has assumed an iconic (and ironic) place on this tour, and it’s used as a joke whenever someone suggests an activity or destination. We’ll always make fun of a situation – “How about we go to this sushi place and try the blowfish?” “What could possibly go wrong?”
There’s something funny about the way I write. I always start with a situation that, really, with a little patience and common sense, anyone could navigate their way out of it. For example, let’s say I have a character named Rebecca, who is on her way to a very important meeting, the one that will
Over the course of this year’s election cycle you were probably inundated with emails urging you to contribute hard cold cash to one of the campaigns for President of the U.S. of A. Many pundits credited President Obama and his team for a fantastic “ground game.” That’s when the all the hard work and intensive
NaNoTIP: Don’t write excessively long, winding, meandering sentences or phrases or paragraphs full to bursting, redolant with, literally stuffed with redundant, repetitive, overly-used adjectives, adverbs, coordinate or otherwise. Remember, you want your messy, shitty first draft to be useful to you later. Need to ramp up your word count? Don’t run in circles around your
NaNoTIP: Making It Happen: by Elizabeth Stark Read More »
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