Archive for August, 2013
Timey-Whimey: The Biggest Secret of the Publishing Industry (Special Edition)
Posted by jarviswrites in Jennie, Special Editions on August 27, 2013
By Jennie Jarvis As an aspiring writer, I’ve been given a lot of advice to consider as I pursue my writing career. While there were a few positive things conveyed to me along the way, most of what I encountered were warnings of harsh feedback, rejections, painful rewrites, and people maybe possibly stealing my work […]
Publication New for Brad Windhauser
Posted by virgowriter in Brad, News on August 26, 2013
Publication New for Brad Windhauser Brad’s new essay (“The Bible Project”) about his experience reading the Bible for the first time was just published at the Philadelphia Review of Books (http://bit.ly/17eJHTR) His novel Regret is now available as an eBook at Amazon (http://amzn.to/1d8BCFq), iTunes, and Barnes and Noble.com (http://bit.ly/14Vfm91) You can check out a recent […]
The Importance of Setting in Fiction by Brad Windhauser
Posted by virgowriter in Brad, Setting on August 23, 2013
The Importance of Setting in Fiction By Brad Windhauser Your story opens in scene. A woman is berating her lover, unleashing on him a series of whispered but stern barbs about his neglect before moving on to his emotional and then sexual shortcomings. At the moment, the setting isn’t contributing, it hasn’t even been mentioned. […]
Beyond Edgar and Ezra: Back to School Edition
Posted by Ron Hayes in Ron, Special Editions on August 21, 2013
by Ron Hayes As the end of August draws near—and with it the end of yet another summer—the stores and the shopping malls tell us that the diminishing daylight and dropping temps can mean only one thing: Christmas is here! Okay, well perhaps not that quite yet. Of course we all know that with the […]
Publication News for Brad Windhauser
Posted by virgowriter in Brad, News on August 14, 2013
Publication News for Brad Windhauser Brad’s recent story “Ours” was just published in the July 2013 issue of Northern Liberties Review. The story follows a woman as she wrestles with whether or not to cash the insurance check provided by the trucking company responsible for the truck that accidentally killed her husband. Should she use […]
Put your Characters in their Place
Posted by wordimprovisor177 in Darlene, Setting on August 12, 2013
by Darlene Cah Let’s take a tour of my living room in this moment. Yes, you should be afraid! The walls are a dark-ish green with a lighter green accent wall along the entryway. The floors are hardwood in a medium-light honey color. There’s a gas fireplace with a brick façade wedged into one corner. […]
The Role of the Unreliable Narrator in Shaping Point of View in Sedaris’ “Season’s Greetings to Our Family and Friends”
Posted by virgowriter in Brad, Special Editions on August 9, 2013
The Role of the Unreliable Narrator in Shaping Point of View in Sedaris’ “Season’s Greetings to Our Family and Friends” By Brad Windhauser The narrator in any story provides the reader with a vantage point from which he or she learns of the story’s details. All ideas expressed are therefore filtered through this narrator’s sensibilities—we […]
The Light in Barcelona: Setting in Screenwriting
Posted by jarviswrites in Jennie, Setting on August 6, 2013
By Jennie Jarvis In 2006, the Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock romance The Lake House came to theaters. For the most part, the film was mediocre as far as romances go. I cared about the characters, and the situation that kept them apart was an interesting twist, but overall, it didn’t exactly touch my heart […]
Here And There…Or Maybe Just Not Anywhere
Posted by Ron Hayes in Ron, Setting, The Craft Of Writing, Writing Advice on August 2, 2013
by Ron Hayes Recently I opened a poetry contest to celebrate a historical event’s bicentennial here in my town. Entrants were invited to address and/or interpret the contest’s theme as broadly as they wished. To fully understand, it’s helpful for you to know the following: the historical event took place on Lake Erie during the […]
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