The Writer in the Closet
BY ELEANOR TALBOT I’ll be honest. I don’t really consider myself a writer. John Steinbeck is a writer. Cannery Row is so effortless and quiet that you can hardly feel yourself reading it. It’s as if you are sitting in a comfy chair with someone telling you about a set of lives been and gone. […]
The Worst Writing Mistake I’ve Ever Made? I Stopped Writing
BY CLAIRE BENTLEY Not just once. I stopped writing multiple times during my nearly forty years of life. So much for not making the same mistake twice. I followed a similar trajectory to many other writers, in that I wrote stories from the moment I learned the alphabet. I wrote a new novel every week […]
The Best Writing Tip: Submit Like a Ninja
BY LAURINDA LIND I’ve had bushels of writing advice dumped at my feet, most of it inspirational for a day or so. Show, don’t tell. Kill your darlings. Throw away the first page. Yeah, yeah, I agreed, dashing off short stories that snoozed for years in binders and file folders. I wrote crappy poems. I […]