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June 24, 2024
Thanks to Elizabeth Winthrop Alsop for sharing her thoughts on “Writing places: Where do you do your best work?”
I’ve been on hiatus from my writing because of travel and family business. When I look back at the last date I entered in my writing journal, the one I keep along side whatever work of fiction is occupying me these days, I’m not surprised to see it reads May 12th. I’ve been on the …
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June 17, 2024
A writer’s sanctuary!
From inside my study, one wall book-lined, the other holding a large mirror that makes the room appear bigger, I sit on the loveseat, listening to Strauss and the waterfall powered by a tiny electric pump. When I’m home, I turn it on, the sound of water like a heart beat in this house, a …
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June 10, 2024
The raising of a literary agent!
Years ago, for several months I was involved with a small Canadian literary agency with one principal, a former practicing contract attorney (I’ll call her Virginia, though that isn’t her real name), and her associate Sandra, a woman who claimed to have years of experience in the New York publishing scene as an agent and …
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June 3, 2024
Read guest author David Roth’s thoughtful & thought provoking comments on writing narrative!
David Roth’s bio: David received his undergraduate Communication degree from Stanford University. After moving to New York City to pursue a career in documentary film production, he began MA studies in Creative Writing at New York University, which included a course with his first literary hero E. L. Doctorow. He took a leave of absence …
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May 27, 2024
What’s in a name? Here’s my experience!
I was having dinner with friends recently. They’d read my novel Fling! and wanted to know how I came up with the main characters’ names—Bubbles and Feather. When I tried to pinpoint the moment when the names tumbled onto the page, I couldn’t. But as I worked backwards, I realized that all three generations of …
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May 20, 2024
Thanks to memoir & nonfiction specialist Suzanne Sherman for her thoughts in “Perception is Real”
As you reflect on and write some of the stories from your life, remember, you are writing the truth as you know it. Someone else who was present at a particular incident you’ve written about can have a different view of “what happened,” but that doesn’t mean that what you remember didn’t happen the way …
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May 13, 2024
Thanks to ELIZABETH WINTHROP ALSOP for sharing her discussion of “Plotters and Pantsers: Which kind of writer are you?”
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about my creative process. A few months ago, I signed up for a program called Plottr, an application that helps writers outline their stories as well as create what is known in the biz as a story bible. I’m at work on a novel that is part of …
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May 6, 2024
Is presenting our books at Book Festivals worth the time and money?
I’ve been thinking about book festivals I’ve participated in and realize that, while these events are great for focusing on the many book genres available, I probably won’t attend one again. A while back, I signed up for the Bay Area Book Festival in Berkeley, a relatively new venue. Its first session was in 2015, …
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April 22, 2024
Commitment: Writing’s essential component
In “Spirit of the Law,” a short story I’ve been working on, I want to explore life after death, and something else—how the dead go on living or not living, if only in our memory, in the physical places where we’ve known them. It helped to read last night that Bernard Malamud would write eighteen …
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April 15, 2024
Recreating the Self through Writing Memoir
I opened the I Ching at random this morning and came up with #38, K’uei / Opposition. The commentary says it is common for two opposites to exist together, needing to find relationship. I realize an opposition is being set up just in the act of writing my memoir Drop Out: my inner writer will be …
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