by Elizabeth | Jul 18, 2012 | Events, Featured, Uncategorized
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...
by Elizabeth | Jul 17, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
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...
by Angie Powers | Jul 14, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
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....
by Devi S. Laskar | Jul 12, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
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...
by Devi S. Laskar | Jul 11, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
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...
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