Tag: Creative Writing

  • Should A Writer Start A Blog?

    Should A Writer Start A Blog?

    Sometime in the last few years you’ve probably had a friend, professor, or family member tell you that you need to have a blog.  If you’re anything like me you nodded your head while thinking, “I’ll get right on that as soon as I finish reading War and Peace.”  Still, that friend was right.  Writing…

  • Writing on Mars

    During this last year there seems to have been a renewed interest in outer space.  Larry Page of Google and others have started Planetary Resources with the aim of mining asteroids by 2020.  Newt Gingrich promised a lunar colony during the republican presidential primary.  And a couple weeks ago Mars One, a private company, announced…

  • Understanding Vantage Point In Writing By Nathan Feuerberg

    Understanding Vantage Point In Writing By Nathan Feuerberg

    Often, first time writers pick up a pen because something has happened in their life that they believe others should know about.  Maybe they have just finished the twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous or possibly they watched a friend bleed to death in Iraq and they’ve decide they need to write a memoir or novel…

  • How to Write What You Know By Nathan Feuerberg

    How to Write What You Know By Nathan Feuerberg

    It is common to hear people advise writers to, ‘Write what you know.’  Everyone from granddaddies to customs officials will hand out this bit of information to aspiring writers as though it is the answer to everything.  And in a way it is.  Whether the advice giver knows it or not they are pointing out…

  • Writer’s Work Groups By John Scherber

    Author, John Scherber, was nice enough to take time off from writing to send us an excerpt from his new book, Writer’s Notebook: Everything I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Starting out, a nonfiction book filled with writing tips about character development, plot, point of view, and more.  Writer’s Work Groups Over…

  • 5 Steps to Submitting Your Fiction to Magazines

    You’ve spent months writing drafts of a short story.  You’ve spent even more time fine tuning your work.  Now your tale is ready to be submitted to magazines, but you’re not sure where to send it or how to go about sending it.  Part of you wants to hand it over to your friend Dave…

  • Teen Workshop at the Writers’ Conference By Susan Page

    The Teen Creative Writing Workshop has always been a beloved part of the San Miguel Writers’ Conference and Literary Festival. Conference planners are keen to share the excitement of the week and the rich opportunities for learning and inspiration with local high school students. This year, the workshop, taught entirely in Spanish, reached new heights,…

  • Getting Started By John Scherber

    You write a letter to your daughter, a college freshman in Iowa in her first year of living away from home, and next you write one to your father, a retired barber living in Prescott, Arizona. You mistakenly switch the letters in the envelopes, and by the time you realize it, they are already on…

  • Elmore Leonard’s Ten Rules For Writing By Andy Ross

    Literary Agent, Andy Ross, recently wrote a blog with tips for writers.  We liked it so much we wanted to share it with you.  Andy has worked in the book business since 1972 and has been profiled in such newspapers and magazines as Publisher’s Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, Time Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal.…

  • The San Miguel Writers’ Conference By Nathan Feuerberg

    Three years ago a friend from graduate school coerced me into volunteering for the 6th annual San Miguel Writers’ Conference.  She needed people to check tickets at the door and, although I wasn’t interested in spending my weekend as a bouncer, I agreed to do it.  At the time I didn’t know much about the…

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