The Storyteller, The Brain and The Winner
“What Fancy sends, the writer must order by Judgment.” — James Gardner
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Great Links on Publishing and Writing Plus Some Chattiness
This is going to be a chatty, informal blog. I’ve been promising some great links to my Book Writing World members and I thought I’d post them here for everyone.
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Interview with Author Lucy Jane Bledsoe
It was wonderful to speak with Lucy Jane Bledsoe about her writing–from gathering daily momentum to mastering craft to handling the rigors of marketing. I toured her small office with its particular objects, meant to inspire or to connect the writer to what matters to her and looked out at the treed hills where she
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Process and Goals
This week in the Book Writing World, we are talking about identifying our own best writing processes and the putting the supports in place to make those into successful, functional systems that get us where we want to go.
Diving In!
Dear Members, Welcome to the Book Writing World. We have a terrific group of accomplished and engaged writers. This week is devoted to getting you connected–to the site and to each other. To start, be sure you’ve joined one group (or maybe up to two groups) from the following list: Planning Your Book Drafting Your
Coffee and Support
All right! Here’s the “Coffee Headache” movie, with a valuable reminder for all of us who want to go it alone! And un-caffeinated. Do you harbor any of these “solo cowboy” beliefs?
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Book Writing World is LIVE: FAQ
Answers to your questions about the Book Writing World, the courses, the bonuses and discounts and more.
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Finish Your Book This Year! Important Instructions
Tomorrow–Thursday, June 3, 2010, we will open to doors to the Book Writing World to the public for the first time ever. Forget your $20,000/ year (or semester) grad school (even if you’ve already graduated) and get the kind of support and inspiration most writers only dream about. I don’t actually like to toot my
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Stress: How to Create Problems for Your Characters
Lucy Jane Bledsoe, in our soon-to-be-released video interview, talks about how in fiction, people are stressed by something. Often, in America at least, we turn to violence for this stress. In her engaging new novel, The Big-Bang Symphony, Bledsoe uses, among other things, the harsh and beautiful setting–Antarctica–to stress her characters. This comment inspired me
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Interview with Kate Moses
An interview with author Kate Moses. Kate shares writing tips from Sylvia Plath, secrets of childhood and baking and how she came to write her new memoir, Cakewalk.
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