From Elizabeth: Devi Laskar is a journalist, fiction writer and poet who is also a long-standing member of the Book Writing World. Devi and I earned our MFAs together at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, although it was Devi’s second Master’s degree and only my first. For the month of November, having done NaNoWriMo […]
NotExactlyNaNoWriMo (write a poem a day for a month) Read More »
Today’s guest blogger is another Book Writing World member, whom I first met in an online memoir class I taught about twelve years ago through Gotham Writers Workshop. She joined the BWW and has been working on an interconnected series of stories (or will it be a novel? or a memoir? Read on . .
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Guest Blog By James Black Quick note from Elizabeth: The Book Writing World is so much more than me. It’s a community of wonderful, talented writers, some with writing degrees, publications and such, some with amazing life experiences, all with great stories to tell. So I’ve opened the blog to them, as well. We start
This Is All I Can Do Read More »
Imagine you are feeling unfit. You want to exercise, but you are nervous, out of shape, weak. So you decide you will read about exercise and visualize it until you feel ready to run or dance or lift weights. It’s easy to see how silly this is. Sure, reading can be a great way to
Writing and Risk: How to Dare Read More »
Quick reminder that today is the last day to sign up for the Structure for Success course and get an hour of private coaching in the deal. https://bookwritingworld.com/structure-for-success/ Also, I have a growing list of folks who want to take the course but can’t at that time. Is this true for you? Let me know
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“A real writer is one who really writes,” Marge Piercy said. How, then, do you make the time and wrangle the self-confidence to do the deed? How do you turn the dream into a daily practice, the wonderful idea into an actual book? As a published author, I have been working on those questions for
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The Book Writing World wants to know about your writing life–your challenges, your needs, and maybe how we can help. So we are taking a survey of writers and folks interested in writing. In exchange for a few minutes of your time, we will pick one of you wonderful people, at random, to give a
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Love After Love The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine.
A Poem for Writers and Other People Read More »
Literature is all, or mostly, about sex. – Anthony Burgess Tonight I am teaching a class on writing sex, and I’ve culled some quotes as a way to begin to think about it. My own thoughts, in brief, are these: 1) Sex, like dialog, must do more than one thing, and must do it in
Writing Sex: 3 Thoughts, 5 Quotes and an Epigram Read More »
Writing a pitch is not just a tool for selling your novel. It can help you write a better book, too. And that, in turn, will do more for selling your book than the greatest pitch in the world. I am working on a deep last pass of my novel-in-progress before sending it out to
Pith and Pitch: Query Your Manuscript, Then Your Prospective Agents Read More »
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