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The Fear of Committing Words to the Page
Creative Writing Corner | July 24th 2008
When it's time to begin a new story, I'm happy to begin the thinking process. I can idle an hour away just looking out the window and tentatively planning scenes, settings, and characters. But when it comes to actually writing it down, often I delay read more
Poetic Links Worth A Mention
World Class Poetry Blog | July 23rd 2008 by Allen Taylor
If you didn’t have the talent to be a writer, would you still write? Waiting on Beckett. Dark Matter’s gigs. Grrrrr …. Poetry Hut is closed. Diane Lockward on bios. See three new pages at World Class Poetry: Stephen Crane Ralph Wald read more
Poet Laureate Interviews Blogger Allen Taylor
World Class Poetry Blog | July 22nd 2008 by Allen Taylor
Before being deployed as a National Guard officer in July 2004, I was a newspaper editor. As such, I spent a lot of time conducting interviews. I had worked in other writing assignments prior to that and had developed a sort of “open-ended̶ read more
Read Some Nonfiction
Creative Writing Corner | July 22nd 2008 by Cynthia Hurley
Sometimes fiction writers need to get out of the world of fiction and read about the real world. It's great to stay up with the news and the goings-on of the world, but I also want to remind my readers that there is a vast collection of thought-provo read more
Poetry Potpourri, Volume 8
World Class Poetry Blog | July 21st 2008 by Allen Taylor
Meet the anticommunist antimodernists. Meet the fake Frank O’Hara. Meet Ron Silliman’s clone (but don’t laugh). Meet the new declinists. Meet Kay Ryan’s travel agenda. What’s going on at the National Mall in September. T read more
Guest Post by Emmet Ryan
Creative Writing Corner | July 21st 2008
I'm pleased to present a guest post by fellow blogger Emmet Ryan, about computer speech. Is it destroying teens' ability to write well? Enjoy the post and be sure to check out his blog right here. Thanks, Emmet! OMFG electronic language is nothing to read more
Just Write Blog Carnival July 18, 2008 Edition
The Incurable Disease of Writing | July 18th 2008 by Missy
Welcome to the July 18, 2008 edition of Just Write. I’ve had a fantastic time visiting all the articles/blogs for this edition of Just Write. We have a diverse range of articles this week and I’m sure you’ll find something helpful, read more
Look at a Classic Story for Structure
Creative Writing Corner | July 17th 2008
Reading a classic short story can be immensely helpful for cultivating tone, mood, and syntax. On top of these details, though, I find that my sense of a story's structure has come less from trial and error and more from noticing the structure of cla read more
Writing Application Essays!
Creative Writing Corner | July 15th 2008
Aargh! Don't you hate 'em? I'm referring, of course, to the kind of essays you think you'll only have to write once in your life -- for college applications -- but somehow, you end up having to write new ones. Somehow, it didn't occur to me that I wo read more
Where I've Been for the Past Week...
Naked On Rollerskates | July 13th 2008 by Nancy
I've been in the mountains of western North Carolina at the Wildacres Writers Retreat. A beautiful place that looks like this... In a bark-sided guest house, down a steep hill... Staying in a sumptuous guest suite... Which read more
The Best Part of Writing
Hilltop Notes | July 12th 2008 by Joan L. Cannon
I've come to the conclusion that something I remember reading long ago is absolutely right: that to write is one of the best ways to discover what you think. My recent excursion into the world inhabited by columnists and professional essayists has th read more
Just Write Blog Carnival July 11, 2008 Edition
The Incurable Disease of Writing | July 11th 2008 by Missy
Welcome to the July 11, 2008 edition of Just Write. I’m constantly surprised by the diversity of submissions this carnival receives and this week is no exception. We have some great advice, encouragement, tips and an outpouring of love for wri read more
My Five Truths of Freelancing
CatalystBlogger | July 9th 2008 by Jennifer
I saw this post on Words on the Page the other day about the seven truths of freelance writing. Lori covered a lot here, but I felt compelled to add a few of my own: The more of a hurry they're in for the first draft, the longer they'll take to get read more
Editing Your Stories: Continuity
Creative Writing Corner | July 9th 2008
It's time for another installment in my long-running series on that often-neglected but crucial aspect of writing, namely, editing your stories. I've mentioned this in other posts, but it's especially important to keep an eye out for continuity when read more
3 Shorts For Ya’ll
World Class Poetry Blog | July 8th 2008 by Allen Taylor
Try some politically engaged poetry. R.I.P. Tom Disch. Writing poetry on Otto. __________________________________________________________________________ World Class Poetry Blog is written by the poet, Allen Taylor. Copyrigh read more
If only...
Hilltop Notes | July 8th 2008 by Joan L. Cannon
As too many fiction writers know, one of the most frustrating exercises is the search for an agent and/or publisher. Among the occasional rejection notes (in place of the non-response or printed forms), I've received two that said the reader didn't w read more
Losing - and Refinding an Idea
Creative Writing Corner | July 7th 2008
For creative writers, sometimes losing an idea can be just as frustrating as losing an actual physical item. We go through process that is remarkably similar to, say, losing one's car keys. First we think of the idea, but because it's there, in our h read more
Should Poets Be Twits?
World Class Poetry Blog | July 5th 2008 by Allen Taylor
I’ve wondered whether I should start a Twitter account. It just seems like a lot of work. And since I kind of have two online lives - my business and my poetry, which is sort of a profession-hobby - and the two hardly meet, I’ve been a li read more
How Traveling Shaped Me
Creative Writing Corner | July 3rd 2008 by Cynthia Hurley
In a creative writing class, I mentioned once how I'd been commuting since I was about nine years old. My school was forty-five minutes away from my house and at first I rode the bus, then I quietly rode the train, for this time period there and back read more
Letting Go
Mindful Banter | July 2nd 2008 by Roxanne Ravenel
July 1st was a big day for me.First: It kicked off JulNoWriMo - a novel-in-a-month competition in which I am participating. I know what you're thinking.... "Didn't you try that a couple of times already?" Indeed you are right. I participated in NaNoW read more
Working and Reworking a Story
Creative Writing Corner | June 30th 2008
Much as we want every story to flow effortlessly from our fingertips, sometimes a story becomes very laborious. I'm experiencing one of those stories now, where I find myself struggling to write a scene and then second-guessing my efforts the minute read more
My Four Biggest Mistakes as a Freelance Writer
CatalystBlogger | June 29th 2008 by Jennifer
Nobody's perfect. While I really feel I've grown as a writer and businessperson in the past two years, I made plenty of mistakes along the way--and some of them I'm still making. Here are four of my big freelancing no-no's--either ones that took me read more
A good day!
Hilltop Notes | June 28th 2008 by Joan L. Cannon
It's rare to have an opportunity to be read by someone who bothers to think about one's story or book or poem. I've just had my day (maybe my year) made by one such reader. All at once, after years of wondering whether I should find another hobby (so read more
Just Write Blog Carnival June 27, 2008 Edition
The Incurable Disease of Writing | June 27th 2008 by Missy
Welcome to the June 27, 2008 edition of Just Write. No stuff and fluff here; let’s get right to the good stuff — fantastic writing articles. Believe me, we have quite a few superb submissions this week. Book Reviews Rachel Fox presents R read more
On The Relationship Between Poetry And Philosophy
World Class Poetry Blog | June 26th 2008 by Allen Taylor
Meet the Dead Philosopher’s Society. I’ve always been enamored of philosophy. I think my fascination with it began early when I realized I was more intelligent than 75% of the adults in my world. I was about 10 years old. I began to take read more
Stories Are Everywhere: Peoplewatching
Creative Writing Corner | June 24th 2008
In another installment of my stories are everywhere series, I'd like to talk about peoplewatching. There's a curious, gossipy way to do it that most people engage in regularly, and there's a writerly way to do it, a way that enables you to dig narrat read more
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