Stephanie Nikolopoulos's Blog, page 52
November 14, 2012
10 Quotes for Writing When You’re Staring at a Blank Page
The blank page. So full of potential, yet perhaps the most intimidating for some people. If you’re participating in NaNoWriMo or just starting a new writing project, you may be facing the blank page wondering where to begin your story or what you even want to say. Here are some famous quotes by authors who [...]
November 13, 2012
She Threw Out Her Cell Phone and Packed On the Road
This young woman gets up to the microphone. She speaks confidently but not in a rehearsed manner as she tells her story. She’s been in New York City only for a few months now, since sometime this summer. Unlike many people, she wasn’t intent on staying here. New York City wasn’t her dream destination. She [...]
November 12, 2012
Reading Recap: I Got Upstaged
I was completely upstaged at my last reading. The last time I read at a Storytellers event at The Penny Farthing, I read a portion from my memoir about growing up Greek American. I decided to mix it up a bit this last time. Since I’ve been working really hard these days on Burning Furiously [...]
November 8, 2012
Jack Kerouac and NaNoWriMo
Jack Kerouac claimed to have written On the Road in three weeks. That’s only partly true. My coauthor, Paul Maher Jr., and I tell the less marketable but more realistic story in Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. Part of the way Kerouac wrote his novels was to sit [...]
November 7, 2012
Election 2012: Hunting with the President
Hunting the Grisly: One of the nation’s most beloved presidents, Theodore Roosevelt’s connection to nature continues to be seen today: 150 national forests, five national parks, and fifty-one wildlife refuges are a result of his conservation efforts. I wrote an introduction to this Nook book. It was interesting following the topics relating to the [...]
November 6, 2012
Election 2012: The White House Landscape Artists
In honor of the upcoming election, here’s a bit of trivia::: The grounds at the White House in Washington, D.C., were designed by Calvert Vaux and Andrew Jackson Downing. While Downing was American, Vaux was British. After Downing was killed in a steamboat accident (I kid you not), Vaux went on to work with Frederick Law [...]
November 5, 2012
Election 2012: Colonel Washington and Me
Part of what I love about being a writer and editor is getting to work with other authors who have important stories to tell. Jeffrey E. Finegan Sr. was one such author. He wrote a children’s book called Colonel Washington and Me: George Washington, His Slave William Lee and Their Incredible Journey Together! The book, [...]
November 2, 2012
Election 2012: Church of the Presidents
As we gear up to Election Day 2012, one of the main considerations voters have is: how do the candidates’ religious beliefs influence their leadership? Do their economic plans care for the widows and orphans? Will extending money to those in need unfairly take away the rights of others to the money they worked hard [...]
November 1, 2012
Happy NaNoWriMo Day!
Today is the start of NaNoWriMo – National Novel Writing Month! NaNoWriMo is touted as “thirty days and nights of literary abandon!” The premise is simple. On November 1, anyone interested in writing a novel begins a novel with the goal of completing the first draft by the end of the month. More specifically: National [...]
October 31, 2012
Road Trip: Nightmare of a Trip
Happy Halloween! I’ve been recounting some rather nightmarish road trip tales for you — the tour I booked not going all the way to Big Sur, the bus breaking down, not being able to stop and pick up 7 avocados for a dollar in Salinas, my road trip essentially going awry. Oh, the horror! I [...]
