I just created a new, free class in the form of a three-part guide to “Modeling Masters,” and I want to share with you some of the lessons I learned or remembered in the creation of this product. 1) Pieces. Breaking down what you do intuitively into steps you can teach and transfer to someone […]
Five Writing-Related Lessons I Learned This Week “Modeling Masters:” by Elizabeth Stark Read More »
Lately, I’ve been struggling between the image of what I’m supposed to do and what I’m actually doing. There between my imagination and my actions lies a great chasm, a seemingly uncrossable chasm without even so much as a rope bridge to bring me across. On the one side, I have the ghosts that follow
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When I was a kid, there were stories that I never tired of hearing or reading. One of my earliest memories starts with the sound of my paternal grandmother’s voice retelling the Mahabharata, and the exiled Pandavas living in a house made entirely of wax. One of the first stories I remember reading are the
“Go To” List: by Devi Laskar Read More »
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 go toward completing a
Learning NOT to listen: by Devi Laskar Read More »
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 before, the ordinary world.
September 11, 2012: Stories, by Elizabeth Stark Read More »
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 “hook.” If you look around the
What’s the Bright Idea? By Angie Powers Read More »
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 vacationing with her family being inspired by the natural beauty of the island. I was
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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.’ If you write often, perhaps every day, you will
“Triggering: the Writing Life: by Devi Laskar Read More »
As some of you know well, the author Thaisa Frank will be visiting the Book Writing World this week, on Thursday, 5 – 6 p.m. to talk about craft, the writing life and her new collection, Enchantment, a book full of a diverse array of long and short fiction, some surreal, some autobiographical, some both
The Big Picture: Goals, Lists and Books: by Elizabeth Stark Read More »
What will teach us to write? “The page, the page,” says Annie Dillard in The Writing Life. I concur, but there are two pages that teach us to write, the blank page which we (I paraphrase Annie Dillard) cover with our scribble knowing that we ruin whatever we touch but touching it nonetheless . .
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