by Angie Powers | Apr 28, 2014 | Daily Prompt, reading, Trade Secrets, Write Your Book, writing
My kids and I are reading the Harry Potter books for the first time. One of the techniques J.K. Rowling uses again and again is this: something is happening, characters are reacting to it, but we readers don’t quite know what is going on. We are catching up. The...
by Angie Powers | Apr 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
Sunday April 14, the Book Writing World will be hosting its first annual dinner reading at the Saturn Café in Berkeley. Come join us for great food, better words and writing community.
by Angie Powers | Dec 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
This afternoon (Tuesday, Dec. 3) at 4 p.m. Pacific/ 7 p.m. Eastern, I will be holding open office hours on WebEx to give folks a chance to learn about BWW courses, talk to me about your writing, and figure out which class is right for you . . . Come talk writing. Tell...
by Angie Powers | Nov 16, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
There’s something funny about the way I write. I always start with a situation that, really, with a little patience and common sense, anyone could navigate their way out of it. For example, let’s say I have a character named Rebecca, who is on her way to a very...
by Angie Powers | Nov 9, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
NaNoWriMo is underway. For those of you still chugging along – Congratulations! It’s a huge thing to do. It’s funny that we need an outside structure sometimes to make us do what we burn to do. Rather than bemoan the fact, I’m glad that there are so many...
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