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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 […]
Writing As Catharsis: Writing As A Coping Mechanism
Posted by jarviswrites in Growing Up A Writer, Jennie, Supporting Yourself As A Writer, The Writer's Life, Why I write, Writing About Death, Writing Advice on October 13, 2014
by Jennie Jarvis One of the sad truths about being human is that we will, without doubt, have to deal with death at some point in our life. Even if we are the most anti-social person in the world and stay isolated from every other person on the planet, we will still have to face […]
How A Hotdog Made Me A Better Writer
Posted by LadyLadder in Growing Up A Writer, Linda on September 30, 2014
by Linda Escalera Price My mother refused to teach me to read. I was about 3, and she thought if I learned to read then, I would be bored when I started kindergarten. So I taught myself to read by studying my older siblings’ workbooks about Dick and Jane and Sally. (As the youngest, I […]
Blame it on Black Beauty
Posted by wordimprovisor177 in Darlene, Growing Up A Writer on September 26, 2014
By Darlene Cah Sometime in third grade at Our Lady of Grace Elementary School in Brooklyn, Miss Demik changed the life of a fat kid from the projects. Yeah, that would be me. The young teacher brought in a copy of Black Beauty, and read one chapter every day to the class. It was like […]
Mining The Past to Gild The Present: How I Got Here
Posted by Ron Hayes in Growing Up A Writer, Ron Hayes on September 15, 2014
by Ron Hayes We are all, every one of us, the sum of our parts. Each of us carries around with us the bits and pieces of the places we’ve been and the things we’ve seen and the people we’ve known. For those of us who write, we have that most magical of gifts in […]
Growing up as a Writer: Learning to Think as a Writer by Brad Windhauser
Posted by virgowriter in Brad, Growing Up A Writer on September 8, 2014
Growing up as a Writer: Learning to Think as a Writer by Brad Windhauser Henry James famously said, “A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost.” I stress this with my students every semester. But what does it mean, some ask? We pay attention, I tell them, and when we do, we get to […]
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