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Writing For Young Audiences
Posted by jarviswrites in Character, Dialogue, Furthering the Craft, How I Write, Jennie, The Craft Of Writing, Working Within Constraints, Writer's Signature on November 24, 2015
by Jennie Jarvis Last month, I had the privilege of moderating a panel at the Florida Writers Conference on writing for young audiences. Speaking on the panel were the following dynamic writers: New York Times Bestselling Author Beth Revis, Comic Book writer/editor, Graphic Novelist and YA Author Roland Mann, award winning children’s book author and screenwriter […]
Preparing For A Writing Conference
Posted by jarviswrites in Furthering the Craft, Getting Published, Growing Up A Writer, Jennie, Marketing, Special Editions, Structure, Supporting Yourself As A Writer, The Business of Writing, The Craft Of Writing, The Writer's Community, The Writer's Life, Working Within Constraints, Writing Advice on August 28, 2015
By Jennie Jarvis As many of you may know, we are smack dab in the middle of Conference season, and hopefully this means that you have already attended a Writing Conference this year or you are planning to attend one in the next couple of months. If you don’t have a Writing Conference on your […]
Those Who Can’t… Growing By Teaching
Posted by jarviswrites in Furthering the Craft, Jennie on November 30, 2013
By Jennie Jarvis If you’ve worked in academia in any capacity, then you’ve probably seen some form of this image: It’s called the Learning Pyramid, and it’s supposed to be a pictorial representation of how students tend to best remember the information that they are taught. As you can see, students tend to retain […]
The Ins and Outs of Furthering My Craft
Posted by Ron Hayes in Furthering the Craft, Ron, The Craft Of Writing, The Writer's Community, The Writer's Life on November 25, 2013
by Ron Hayes Like so many writers, my ability to engage in self-promotion is, at best, stunted; at worst, it’s almost criminal. At virtually every turn, in any eventuality, I find myself preferring—by far—to curl inward, engaging the internal locus of my writing instead of spending time and energy on the external demands of things […]
Furthering the Craft: Applied Learning by Emilia Fuentes Grant
Posted by jarviswrites in Furthering the Craft, Guest Bloggers on November 13, 2013
5writers once again welcomes the return of Emilia Fuentes Grant as a guest blogger for this month! Further the Craft: Applied Learning by Emilia Fuentes Grant It’s an interesting thing, to hold the title of “master” in a field of practice. I’m a Master of the Fine Arts in Creative Writing, specifically Fiction, and the […]
Be Crafty about your Craft
Posted by wordimprovisor177 in Darlene, Furthering the Craft on November 8, 2013
By Darlene Cah One time, when I was working as a copywriter for a large publishing company in New York, my art director and I were looking at illustrators’ portfolios for a catalog we were producing. She had dozens of tear sheets from artist reps scattered all over her cube, on the desk, on the […]
How to Further Your Craft by Developing a Personal Reading List by Brad Windhauser
Posted by virgowriter in Brad, Furthering the Craft on November 3, 2013
How to Further Your Craft by Developing a Personal Reading List by Brad Windhauser When I was pursuing a writing degree at UCSD, one of my professors—from whom I learned a lot and for whom I had a lot of respect—suggested to my class that the only benefit to pursuing a graduate degree in writing […]
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