by Devi S. Laskar | Sep 12, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
Writing is a journey and a difficult one at that. It is often a struggle to write, and it is often a treacherous trek to establish the habit of writing consistently. The rewards are amazing and tangible: if we do it, we end up with good work, tangible pages that can...
by Elizabeth | Sep 11, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
The body remembers stories. The body remembers stories in details. What we were wearing, where we were standing, what precisely we were doing when . . . The world is frozen in time, only not frozen, but captured. A small film of a moment. We see it. This is the moment...
by Angie Powers | Sep 7, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
So, I’m trying to figure out this whole “concept” thing. Coming from screenwriting, it seems like there is more talk of the concept or a high concept than I’ve seen in book writing circles. First, I had to figure out, what is the difference between a “concept” and a...
by Devi S. Laskar | Sep 6, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
Recently, Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Visit From the Goon Squad, regular New Yorker contributor, and New York Times journalist spoke at the Chilmark Community Center on Martha’s Vineyard where she (like me) has spent countless Augusts...
by Devi S. Laskar | Sep 5, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
Richard Hugo wrote in The Triggering Town, of poetry: “Once a spectator said, after Jack Nicklaus had chipped a shot in from a sand trap, ‘That’s pretty
lucky.’ Nicklaus is supposed to have replied, ‘Right. But I notice the more I practice, the luckier
I get.’...
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