how to write | how to write
Apr.03.2013
It's questionable the degree to which anyone can actually be taught to write, but according to one source Salinger blossomed while taking Whit Burnett's writing class at Columbia University. Following is a quote from Fiction Writer's Handbook, by Hallie and Whit Burnett.
"...there was one dark-eyed...
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Dec.29.2012
Although Ernest Hemingway's early short stories are more florid, his style became almost journalistic, with writing that draws you into the current of the story before you realize it. He was the master of understatement; hyperbole was not Hem. His best prose is light and airy, almost dreamlike....
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Aug.01.2012
Hopefully, better late than never...Well, I'm very behind on shouting my own praises, but here's most of a press release that was sent out in a more timely fashion:
"Best Books of Spring" San Francisco Book Fest Picks "TellTale Souls Writing Mother Memoir."
San Francisco Book Festival...
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Apr.23.2012
So many people tell me that they wish they could write, but they don’t know where to start. Should they dive right into a novel? Start with short stories? Write articles about stuff they know? Should they go to school? Take a class? Start a critique group? Start a blog?
The answer to all...
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Feb.11.2012
My romance-and-science novel, Love At Absolute Zero, just started a blog tour, and one site asked if I'd write a guest blog. My new college class in children's literature also just started, and I decided to write how the first Harry Potter book helps my students understand how to write....
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Nov.08.2011
I love producing short books fast, and I often teach workshops on this topic. Writers get very excited about becoming a published author in under a month. What better time to try writing and publishing a short book fast than during Write Nonfiction in November (WNFIN), when you...
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Oct.17.2011
1. Write what you want to write about. When I was ‘ten and eleven twelfths years old,’ I wrote a prologue to my novel Scrapbook: “I always wanted to write a book, but I didn’t know how. I thought I would write about sports or animals or dolls or life but somehow I couldn’t put...
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Aug.07.2011
In my latest podcast I use my experience as an award-winning writer of nonfiction, crime fiction, and historical thrillers to show how to structure your book and, in the case of fiction, how to lay out your plot. This is the second of three episodes titled How to Write a Book. The next episode will...
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Mar.01.2011
Many writers go to critique groups, writers conferences, writers club meetings, and workshops and seminars on writing and publishing. They read books on how to write well and get published. However, a time comes when a writer must take what he or she has learned, put down the books and pick up...
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Jan.20.2011
Each author/writer draws from their own methods, not everyone is the same. Some write spontaneously, some get ideas popping into their heads and jot it down, some sit for hours with pen & paper until an idea comes, and some (like me) have a unusual dream and jot it down.
Both my novels have...
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