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Don’t be a Punk!: The Secret to Marketing Your Work
Posted by jarviswrites in Getting Published, Jennie, Marketing, The Business of Writing, Writing Advice on January 13, 2015
By Jennie Jarvis People who have never worked within the film industry are often surprised when I tell them about the ins and outs of how a screenplay gets turned into a movie. Well, maybe “surprised” isn’t the right word. “Shocked” or “flabbergasted” might be more appropriate – especially when I’m talking to writers. In […]
Special Edition – Horror Writing: Playing an Insidious Game by Sidney Williams.
Posted by jarviswrites in Guest Bloggers, Responding to Writing Prompts, Special Editions, The Craft Of Writing, What's Not On the Page, Working Within Constraints, Writing about Death, Writing Advice on October 31, 2014
This month, 5writers.com is delighted to welcome guest blogger Sidney Williams. Sidney Williams is the author of numerous traditionally horror and thriller novels and short stories. His work has been released in e-book editions from Crossroad Press. Horror Writing: Playing An Insidious Game by Sidney Williams Writing horror is an insidious game, though it’s not […]
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 […]
Death Poems: Peverse and Pedestrian Ways of “Making it New”
Posted by Ron Hayes in Ron, Writing Advice on October 8, 2014
By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes. Macbeth Act IV Scene 1 by Ron Hayes Recently I was speaking with a colleague new to our school. He had just learned that I was the outgoing Poet Laureate of Erie, Pennsylvania and as we were talking I heard him […]
What’s In YOUR Belly? What Writers Can Learn From Athletes
Posted by Ron Hayes in Ron, Writing Advice on July 19, 2014
by Ron Hayes I can’t help but love the way Brad Windhauser recently invoked the excitement and the intrigue and the infectious nature of the 2014 World Cup (congrats Deutschland!) in his post about inspiration and staying motivated as a writer. While I am not at all a sports writer myself, I am a sports […]
The Image Abides by Emilia Fuentes Grant
Posted by jarviswrites in Guest Bloggers, Poetry, Writing Advice on April 12, 2014
5writers.com is delighted to welcome back Emilia Fuentes Grant as a guest writer for this month! The Image Abides By Emilia Fuentes Grant This month is Poetry Month (as I’m sure you are aware) and we five writers are writing on the influence of poetry in our lives and our work. Poetry was my first […]
“Tennis Anyone?” or: “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Handcuffs”
Posted by Ron Hayes in Ron, The Craft Of Writing, Working Within Constraints, Writing Advice on September 27, 2013
by Ron Hayes Stockholm Syndrome. Harry Houdini. Robert Frost. Spelunking. A short but strange list, no? It may not be obvious right away, but there is a thread of commonality that runs through it. But what? What could tie spelunking to Robert Frost, Stockholm Syndrome to Houdini and the rest? Oddly, the answer is poetry. […]
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