Friday, December 31, 2010
New Year's Collage Party
Create yourself a collage party tonight or tomorrow--and envision your 2011 creatively! Go to the search box on this blog and type in "creative collages" to find out more and see samples. Happy new year!
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Rest Breaks for Book Writers--Feeding the Artist
There are some important signs of burn-out that writers need to attend to. An overactive Inner Critic. A feeling of the blues about one's work. A sense of deep depletion, despite enough sleep and exercise.
December rolled around with all of these symptoms, for me. I'd just finished up a four-month teaching marathon at three different writing schools plus a new online class. All were amazing, wonderful, and inspiring, but I gave
December rolled around with all of these symptoms, for me. I'd just finished up a four-month teaching marathon at three different writing schools plus a new online class. All were amazing, wonderful, and inspiring, but I gave
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Last-Minute Gift Ideas for Book Writers
This week's exercise is to do something wonderful for a beloved writer in your life. Maybe yourself! Here's a short list of my favorite last-minute gift ideas for writers trying to get a book written.
Online subscription to the Wall Street Journal. WSJ has some of the best articles on writing I've recently seen in mainstream media. Cost $2.29 a week. More information at https://www.wallstreetjournal.com/Gryphon/jsp/retentionController.jsp?page=548
Scrivener. A software program that's available now for Mac users, in 2011 for PC
Sunday, December 12, 2010
The Road to Remembering: How Do You Recall Accurate Memories for Your Memoir?
"I took your class this summer on 'how to write a book' at the Loft Literary Center. I am working on the second revision of my story and remember so little about the time when I was at the home for unwed mothers. I didn’t think about it much after I left, so the memory kind of withered. Much has come back to life with recall and thinking and writing but my question is like this:
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Hybrids: When You're Writing a Book That Straddles Two Genres
A reader from Virginia wrote me: "I’m either writing a very boring memoir which is filled with the ME in memoir, or I’m writing some sort of self-help book which has stories filling in to illustrate my points.
"I’m still writing 'islands' so I don’t have a clear structure yet. I just know
"I’m still writing 'islands' so I don’t have a clear structure yet. I just know
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