Rod Serling said, “Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.” Rod Serling was born December 25, 1924. He had a Bachelor of Arts in Literature. He liked sports and excelled at tennis and table tennis. He wanted to play varsity football but was told he […]
Today in History
On this day, April 24, 1800, The Library of Congress was established. On this day in 1940, Sue Grafton, author of the Kinsey Millhone Mysteries, was born. Remember each of her book titles was named by a different letter in the alphabet: A is for Alibi, T is for Trespass, […]
William Shakespeare Died 399 Years Ago Today
William Shakespeare’s birth date is unknown, but his baptism was on April 26, 1564. He was 53 when he died on April 23, 1616. He married Anne Hathaway in 1582. She was 26/27 years old and he was 18. She died 7 years after Shakespeare’s death. They had three children, Susanna in August 1583 and […]
Jigsaw Box
This week, I listened to Nicola Bird’s webinar about Jigsaw Box. Has anyone used it? Creating modules or packets for people to buy and Jigsaw Box doing all the technology and providing the site to do it, sounds great to me. The monthly fee is reasonable if the packets sell and if they continue to […]
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
The reading group I joined this year, selected Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice to read for April. Austen was born on December 16, 1775 and died on July 18, 1817. She was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. […]
Writing Quote by Brooke Warner
I often tell writers I work with, “Your book already knows what it wants to be,” and I believe that our calling to write the book we’re supposed to write is a whisper–something between intuition and following your inner calling. We receive these whispers all the time. Some of us ignore them or are so […]
California Writers Club Tri-Valley Branch First Writers Conference
April 18, 2015 California Writers Club Tri-Valley Branch First Writers Conference was a huge success. Attendees selected sessions in one of three tracks that included Craft, Marketing, and Self Publishing. Four one hour sessions were scheduled for each track. The first session I attended was Craft, “Romance, Crime/Thriller, Young Adult: Essential Elements for Writing in […]