Tag: John Scherber

  • A Place in the Heart By John Scherber

    A Place in the Heart By John Scherber

    Writer and longtime San Miguel resident, John Scherber, was nice enough to allow us to republish the following excerpt that was originally published in San Miguel de Allende: A Place in the Heart. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did. A Place in the Heart People visiting San Miguel often wonder what…

  • A Place in the Heart By John Scherber

    Writer and longtime San Miguel resident, John Scherber, was nice enough to allow us to republish the following excerpt that was originally published in San Miguel de Allende: A Place in the Heart. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did. A Place in the Heart People visiting San Miguel often wonder what…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Handling the Truth By John Scherber

    Jack Nicholson famously said to Tom Cruise in the 1992 movie A Few Good Men, “You can’t handle the truth!” This line has a resonance that survives today––a remarkable feat for a statement that is fundamentally untrue. Because at a personal level, there is no single ongoing truth to be handled. The reality is that…

  • Beautiful Writing — Who Needs It? By John Scherber

    Many writing coaches counsel their students that “beautiful writing” in fiction usually goes unnoticed by the public. Their readers are busy marching through the narrative on their way to see what happens next. After all, as writers, isn’t our primary job being storytellers? What does it matter how it’s done, as long as it’s clear,…

  • Thirty-Seven Years Of Silence By John Scherber

      I like to suggest that I hold the world record for writer’s block: 37 years. If Guinness has never called me to account for saying that without documentation, it must be because they don’t have this category in their book. Perhaps they should. Things started out reasonably enough. In high school I discovered the…

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