Our children have just “graduated” from preschool. Because of that, I’m a little tender-hearted toward the families with children slightly younger than ours are now. Just the other day, as I drove past the park to pick up my kids from one of their last days at preschool, I watched a mother and child walk […]
Losing Histories: by Angie Powers Read More »
Here’s what’s influenced my world this week: 1. Write or die: “putting the prod in productivity.” There’s an app for everything, and in a recent issue of the L.A. Times, there’s a review of the “write or die” app that is being more frequently used these days – in an effort to keep the effort
Roundabout III: by Devi Laskar Read More »
It’s back to basics, y’all. You want to write? Great. You like the idea of being a writer? Fantastic. You have great thoughts that you need to share with the world? Wonderful. You want to achieve freedom through art? Yippee. Get out the two ingredients you really need: a really cheap ballpoint pen and an
Fifteen minutes to freedom: by Devi Laskar Read More »
What is a writers’ workshop? What does such a critique and conversation do for the writer, and how should readers approach their task? You probably have your own answers to these questions, based on your own experiences with workshops and how good or bad they’ve been. One of the most important things a workshop does
A Community of Readers: A Look at Workshop by Elizabeth Stark Read More »
I have heard that the novelist (and by extension any narrative writer or even any artist) has a responsibility to make the strange familiar and the familiar strange. It seems vague, but it’s also a pretty exciting concept once you think about it and how you might use it in your own life. It’s downright
Big Changes in Small Details: by Angie Powers Read More »
There are people in my family who say there are three types of people in the world: the ones who know the math and do it, the ones who think they know but really don’t know the math and therefore don’t do it, and the ones who know the math but CHOOSE not to do
konigsberg bridge games: by devi laskar Read More »
I was e-talking with Elizabeth, about the fact that she had wild turkeys and redwoods in her backyard and here I was stuck in Brooklyn, beautiful though it was, while she was holding one of the in-person writing workshops I could not attend. “Yes,” she said, “but you’re in the center of the known world.”
Center of the known world: by Melanie Lee Read More »
Book Writing World members recently discussed Booker Prize-winner The Line of Beauty, by Alan Hollinghurst. While most everyone agreed that Hollinghurst writes brilliant descriptions, there was considerable disagreement about whether anything happens, or if the book even has a plot. Most of the group of seven stopped reading halfway through or earlier because they lost interest
Plot or Plod?: by James Black Read More »
Recently I was reading an article in the Atlantic Monthly about new apps that are helping people make life changes (such as losing weight) and how their power comes from BF Skinner’s behavior modification models. Long story short, or the way I like to paraphrase it, which may or may not be accurate, is that
Feedback Loupe: by By Angie Powers Read More »
When we speak, just as when we dream, there is an underlying rhythm to our sentences and thoughts. Sometimes it’s in four-four time, sometimes it’s to iambic pentameter, and sometimes it’s to the beat of a distant police siren or the drum roll of a marching band practicing on a neighboring field. To stay awake
Underlying playlist: by Devi Laskar Read More »
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