by BWW Support | Aug 24, 2016 | Practical Alphabet, Uncategorized
Q is for Questions My workshops begin with the readers summarizing what a piece is about: what happened. We make sure we all read the same story, and the writer, listening, discovers what we made of her or his efforts. This is an easy step to skip, but it’s vital we...
by BWW Support | Aug 17, 2016 | Practical Alphabet, Uncategorized
P is for Pictures I sit on my blue faux-suade couch, covered in a throw blanket. My fuzzy slippers collapse away from each other, empty, on the carpet below. My journal in my lap, I scribble pictures along the pale grey lines. From the kitchen, the propulsive sound of...
by BWW Support | Aug 10, 2016 | Practical Alphabet, Uncategorized
O is for Open Everything we’ve talked about up until now builds to this vital function: to stay open. The muscles of the hand, unused, cramp up, clamp down. The storyteller begins to believe she made herself up. The story narrows, the way forward shrinks, the power...
by Elizabeth | Dec 25, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
1) Try to keep things a secret. This is not something we are great at in our family, though we are getting better. We always want to let someone know as soon as we’ve gotten—or even thought of—the perfect present. Leo and Charlie are making secrets gifts in class...
by Devi S. Laskar | Dec 21, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
Recently, in our wonderful Mentoring Class, Elizabeth Stark posed some interesting questions to us, about why we think we write and what our mission is. My wonderful colleagues at the Book Writing World generously shared their answers and allowing me to publish them....
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