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Sep.24.2010
I just read an article that has literally changed my writing life. I was stuck on a plot problem and couldn't figure out how to resolve it. The problem? I couldn't imagine what happened. Since I like to inhabit my work, it's more accurate to say I couldn't see what had happened. Not what should...
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Sep.17.2010
In keeping with the Word for Words theme of conversations on creativity, our guest this week is poet Charles Rafferty, whose insightful and elegant prose stirs the creative soul. A National Endowment for the Arts grant winner in 2009, Charles offers much wisdom to writers:
Some poems fail...
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Aug.27.2010
L B Gschwandtner is an artist, writer, magazine editor, businessperson, wife, mother, daughter, sister and friend. I first met Laura at the Algonkian Writers Conference in Virginia and am still impressed with her organic, outside the box approach to writing. Her Thenovelette.com is still a totally...
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Aug.25.2010
August 2010, Ridgefield, Conn., Top-producing editor Adele Annesi is promoted to senior editor for the global, IT analyst firm Gartner, Inc., based in Stamford, Conn. An award-winning editor with Gartner, Adele was the top-producing editor for the company's Research division in 2009, and worked as...
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Aug.13.2010
Author, artist, writer and teacher Peter Selgin, Winner of the 2007 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and author of 179 Ways to Save a Novel, a must-read for all writers, shares his insights on that all-important element of writing - style.
AA: It could be said of writers that we are what...
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Aug.06.2010
At some point in your writing life, you'll ask yourself that all important question-why am I doing this? We've been exploring the power of "why" in recent posts, and noted that it breeds other queries. Here's another example of that: Sometimes the question "why am I doing this...
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Jul.23.2010
The most searching, most revealing, most important question you can ask yourself as a writer, maybe in life, is "why." Here, we examine how to unlock the power of this question to break writer's block.
To tackle writer's block, ask yourself what about your writing project has you stymied...
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Jul.14.2010
When I see something of interest in the world, I often replicate it in my imagination so that I can analyze it later. This happens a lot and so quickly I don't think about it, though it's there in my subconscious. The other day I was waiting for the morning train, drinking coffee, finishing a...
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Jul.09.2010
Welcome to a four-part series on editing your work for clarity and publication. There's nothing like clear communication to get a point across. Even writers of literary fiction need to know what they want to say and how best to say it, how to obscure and reveal. For clarity in revelation, we'll...
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Jul.02.2010
SPJ award-winning journalist Jack Sheedy tackles tough subjects with a clear, creative touch. Like all busy working writers, he uses downtime to refuel his creative juices. Also a list maker, Jack finds the to-do list helpful in keeping him on the writing track, and for firing up his creative soul...
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May.12.2010
Barring volcanic eruptions or other unforeseen circumstances, I leave tomorrow for Italy for three weeks. So, I was thinking, since I'll have limited email access, what can I leave you with for that time?
One of the best things I could leave is a roadmap to better writing. To that end, here are...
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May.07.2010
Mary Carroll Moore is an award-winning author, novelist, artist and teacher whose work has appeared over 200 publications. Her latest novel is Qualities of Light. Mary has a particular gift for helping writers find the emotional truth in their work to make it the best it can be. This week, she...
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Apr.30.2010
A writer's inspiration has boundless sources, everything from dreams to doing laundry. What makes the difference is how that inspiration gets put to use.
Poet Doris Henderson, author of What Gets Lost, talks about her inspiration and how she uses it. Note the eloquent language of her explanations....
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Apr.23.2010
Writer Dawn Aldrich, author of the children's picture book Auntie's House, is working on a nonfiction book for adult daughters of divorce. Here, she talks about deadlines, accountability and audience.
AA: How do you feel about deadlines that also demand a shift in different writing styles?
DA: Now...
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Apr.16.2010
Award-winning author Christiana Langenberg is not only a writer, but a professor and a very busy mom. Thanks to Christiana for her fresh, down to earth perspective on revision as part of the writing process.
AA: What is it about the process that you find exhilarating?
CL: Revision is time-...
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About Adele
Adele is an award-winning writer and editor for global online and print publications. She worked as a development editor for Scholastic Publishing, and is a fiction and nonfiction book editor specializing in business, religion and memoir. As a press...
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