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Feb.07.2011
There's something of an accepted technique to short nonfiction writing, i.e., the author uses a minute and very specific life experience to demonstrate a much deeper and broader facet of life. In the winter 2011 issue of Creative Nonfiction magazine, Susan Cheever examines relationships between...
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Feb.05.2011
What else? Sure, I blog! I keep two blogs:
Zinta Aistars: On a Writer's Journey (This, that, kitchen sink, travel series, housesitting adventures, general unspeakable misadventures, epiphanies, dreamwork, sweet nuthins, shameless bragging, random announcements, survival stories, moments of Duh!)...
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Feb.05.2011
THE SMOKING POET: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – SPRING 2011. We are reading submissions now.
http://thesmokingpoet.com/
THE SMOKING POET publishes flash fiction; fiction; nonfiction; poetry; feature author interview; feature poet; feature artist (by invitation only); travel essays; book and cigar...
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Feb.04.2011
Any writing course or lecture I have ever taken or seen at some point comes to the concept of "Show Don't Tell." It seems easy enough, display through your writing the emotions and events of your story rather than plainly stating these things as a matter of fact to the reader. What it...
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Feb.03.2011
A friend recently sent me a snippet from an interview with a relatively young, published author (I believe she is about 30 years old, which in this business counts as young if you have published a few books) and the author was talking about how she writes. Rather than setting some daily word count...
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Jan.28.2011
AA: How would you categorize "the journey" noted in the subtitle?
EA: My background is poetry. When I moved back to southern Maryland, every wave, every leaf, every bird, everything spoke to me, everything put words in my head, but I wanted to give voice to this experience in such a way...
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Jan.21.2011
You never know who you'll meet through a Google search. I met award-winning newspaper columnist and Center for Creative Writing founder Elizabeth Ayres while researching great resources for writers. Since then, Elizabeth has written Invitation to Wonder: A Journey through the Seasons. Here, she...
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Dec.30.2010
... and I give you... (drum roll please)... the official book jacket of Raggin' Jazzin' Rockin': A History of American Musical Instrument Makers, out this April (but already available for pre-order at Amazon)!!
A rockin' way to end 2010, don't you think?
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Dec.28.2010
You all know how to find The Catcher in the Rye* and Freedom, so I'm suggesting some wonderful books you might not have heard of.
I checked them all out, and they're all available on Kindle, so presumably most are in the other formats, too. The links are to Amazon Kindle.
Ideas: David Eagleman's...
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Dec.27.2010
Alice Munro is one of the few authors I have read who so artfully relates the throes of the human condition through her characters’ active and reactive thoughts revolving around people with whom they are intimate and others whom they’ve simply met on their path through life. Having just devoured...
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