July 2012

Breaking News: BWW’s Thais Derich’s article is on Salon.com

Events, Featured, Uncategorized / By Elizabeth

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Go to: http://www.salon.com/writer/thais_derich/ A founding member of the BWW, Thais Derich is writing her first book, First Do No Harm: A Memoir, about birth and motherhood. She writes at SpinachandHoney.com and has contributed to SFGate.com’s Mommy Files and was a contributing food blogger for the San Francisco Examiner. Read her […]

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Success Stories: Hers, Mine and YOURS: by Elizabeth Stark

1 Comment / Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized / By Elizabeth

First let me say: some of you know that my agent sent my book out to editors at publishing houses a few weeks back. Word is still not in! It’s been slow summertime, fourth of July meant a whole week off apparently for many of the hard-working denizens of New York City, and we have

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5 Steps to a Fast and Fun Outline: by Angie Powers

7 Comments / Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized / By Angie Powers

When we think of outlines, we often think one of two things: 1) boring, linear Roman Numeraled points we want to make for an essay in school or 2) a brutal formula we are forced to shoe horn our brilliant creativity into to meet some external standard or narrative. In today’s blog, I’m going to

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Third Hand: Guest blog by Lea Page

Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized / By Devi S. Laskar

Blog Editor’s Note: Many of the Book Writing World members are parents and have found an overlap between the lessons learned as parents and as writers. Lea Page is writing a nonfiction book about parenting so the editors of the BWW wanted to offer this slice of “real life” to our readers. I have been

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What I Did this Summer: by Devi Laskar

Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized / By Devi S. Laskar

I’ve taken a “summer break” from my novel in progress, Shadow Gardens, to work on a nonfiction piece that has been bothering me, yes, irritating me, no annoying me to no end for the past two years. It is a painful topic I’m tackling. Painful not just in the obvious way: a series of unfortunate

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Packing Books: Worlds, Riches, An Enormous Number of Clowns: by Elizabeth Stark

3 Comments / Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized / By Elizabeth

I moved this weekend, rather suddenly. Of course, I’d been thinking and planning the move for a while, but the timing was in question and then suddenly we found the perfect house and got it and started paying rent and so of course we had to move! Moving means, alas, getting everything you want to

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First Steps to a Story: by Angie Powers

10 Comments / Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized / By Angie Powers

I don’t always start a project this way. Sometimes I write about the idea I’m having, or try to write the thing out without doing any planning. Invariably, I come back to making a plan because I get lost. All projects feel too big. I need to break them down. And I need to find

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KISS dispensation: by Devi Laskar

Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized / By Devi S. Laskar

Keep It Simple, Stupid. KISS. That’s the advice I’m dispensing today. There’s no special formula, there’s no potion, there’s no magic. Just work, a few minutes each day, followed by another few minutes the next day, and the day after that. The following advice is free, but if you follow it what I will guarantee

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Writer’s Block: by Sandy Olson

Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized / By Devi S. Laskar

My Book Writing World group was meeting one recent Monday night and it was a reminder that I had committed to write for an hour every day. But I was stalling around: email, online news (Greece gets a bailout! Lindsey Lohan to play Elizabeth Taylor!), computer games, the Sunday New York Times crossword puzzle. Now

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Catch!: by Melanie Lee

1 Comment / Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized / By Devi S. Laskar

The dog and I enter the park the same way every day and we both like to nose around the new things that come up. We always enter on the corner of Washington and Dekalb, going through the stone and wrought iron entry that flanks the front gardens. The dog always finds something there to

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