by Angie Powers | Apr 13, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
When I graduated from my MFA program, I had a couple of hundred pages and no better idea how to write a book than I did going in. I didn’t understand structure, I didn’t understand my process. I didn’t know how to go back and shape something out of...
by Devi S. Laskar | Apr 13, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
The writers in the Book Writing World are bookworms! Reading a “good book” is how we first got hooked into the wide world of literature and influenced our decisions to become writers. 🙂 Here’s what some of the BWWers are reading right now: Robert...
by Devi S. Laskar | Apr 12, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
People usually talk about not writing when they are blocked, when they want to be writing but are not. The other way people talk about not writing, at least subtextually, is when they talk about “having to write.” For anyone struggling with a rigorous daily writing...
by Devi S. Laskar | Apr 11, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
(Roundabout II) As Elizabeth so aptly put it during a recent mentoring class in the Book Writing World: “If you heard it on NPR, then it has to be true.” 🙂 ** I heard a great fish story on NPR, and although Good Friday has already passed, I thought I’d share it. What...
by Devi S. Laskar | Apr 9, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
In a recent TED talk, book designer Chip Kidd explores the relationship between form and content based on his 25 years in the business. A book cover, he says, is a “distillation” or “haiku” of the story that should make a reader want to...
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