Tag: Writing

  • Defining Point of View: Pros and Cons of Six POVs in Fiction

    Defining Point of View: Pros and Cons of Six POVs in Fiction

    Point of view is one of the most important decisions that a writer makes when writing a story.  Point of view dictates how close the reader comes to the characters as well as how the narration is related to the reader.  It is trendy these days to get as close as possible, so that the…

  • Exchanging Money In San Miguel de Allende

    Exchanging Money In San Miguel de Allende

    The easiest way to change your money into Pesos is with your ATM card. Using an ATM to get pesos gives you the best exchange rate and you don’t have to pay a high commission. If you opt to bring cash, there are a few places in the center that can do this service. (Make…

  • 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…

  • Self-Publishing Vs. Traditional Publishing

    Self-Publishing Vs. Traditional Publishing

    The question of whether to go with a traditional publisher or to self-publish has become a popular debate since the advent of digital books and e-reader devices.  In the past fifty years self-publishing was mostly through vanity presses or was used by those who sold industry books to a select audience.  If you were on…

  • Why Movies Will Never Replace Books By John Scherber

    Why Movies Will Never Replace Books By John Scherber

      Movies have been with us for about 115 years now. Their charm is obvious––movement, sound, color, the impact of constantly changing visuals. Some even offer 3-D. Aren’t they about the most stimulating entertainment possible? The violence especially is often more than you could ever imagine, or would want to. With all this, why would…

  • Publishing Without New York By John Scherber

    Publishing Without New York By John Scherber

      So you’re ready to publish your great novel, the one that took you eight years of agony to write, but no one’s interested. You even have an agent. Signing with her made you feel like you were really on your way, but now she rarely returns your calls, and you don’t know exactly what…

  • 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…

  • Writing the Query Letter

    Writing the Query Letter

    So, you’ve finished you’ve novel. Now what? Well, most writers would start by tracking down a literary agent or a publishing house that is right for them. They would get a subscription to the Writer’s Market, browse through the agencies or publishers, and then choose about fifteen to send off sample pages and a query…

  • Los Pueblos Mancomunados by Mittie Roger

    Los Pueblos Mancomunados by Mittie Roger

    I arrived in Benito Juarez by foot. The second class bus dropped me at a fork in a curvy road with nothing in sight. Yet I was not only relieved, I was overjoyed. Nausea from the tightly-enclosed space, sharp turns, and lack of moving oxygen had nauseated me. When the bus driver yelled “Benito Juarez,”…

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