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 […]
Interview with Carole MacLean
Carole MacLean wrote an essay tor my anthology, Written Across the Genres. It’s titled “A New Season”. The first line is “Every Super Bowl season reminds me of what I miss most about my parents.” She goes on to tell about loyalty to their hometown teams after they moved to California and their loyalty […]
Quotes for Writers
“The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.” —Raymond Chandler “When I graduated from high school I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years.” —Ray Bradbury “Good writers define reality. Bad ones, merely restate it.” –Edward Albee