On Saturday, February 14, 2015, at the San Francisco Writers Conference, Gennifer Choldenko will speak at the special event that is free and open to the public. The conference is held at the Mark Hopkins Hotel and the event is at 3:00 to 3:45. Seating is limited so reservations are required. The session is geared […]
Harper Lee Quotes and New Novel
Harper Lee is an American novelist who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. The book was published in 1960 and became an immediate bestseller with more than 30 million copies in print by 1999. It deals with the racism she observed as a child in her hometown in Monroeville, Alabama. Lee was […]
Are You (s)Mothering Your Characters? A Quick Checklist
This post is longer than what I write, but I thought you would like it as I did.
Eudora Welty Quotes
“Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin, heart, mind, and soul of a person who is not yourself, that a character becomes in his own right another human being on the page.” “Indeed, learning to write may be […]
Nominate Your Favorite Bookstore
Nominate Your Favorite Bookstore for a Pannell Award Due date Extended to February 14, 2015 Every year two bookstores that excel in connecting children with books are selected by a panel of publishing professionals–one award is given to a general bookstore and one a children’s specialty bookstore. Anyone can nominate a store. Simply email: pannellaward@gmail.com, […]
San Francisco Writers Conference
February 12 – 15, 2015 is the date for the San Francisco Conference at the Mark Hopkins Hotel. Here is the link: http://www.sfwriters.org/ I’ve attended for the last 8 years. It’s one of the best writing conferences available. Top Ten Reasons for Writers to Attend the 2015 San Francisco Writers Conference Launch your writing career–or […]
Revision and Subtext in Writing
In my writing class, we have finished studying Wired for Story. We have gone on to Catherine Brady’s Story Logic and the Craft of Fiction. Revision is always a topic in class and as I read Brady’s Chapter 4, p.68, I appreciated her statement: “Revision is not engine repair; it’s not possible to lift out […]