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Many writers firmly believe in what they’ve been hearing for years: Write what you know. Not that there’s anything wrong with that — but I find that students who are just starting to write often find it difficult to branch out, to assert their authority as writers beyond their own experiences. At this point I’ll …
“I’ll never have it as good as prison again,” said author Dewitt Gilmore once told New York Times. “For writing, anyway.” This New York Times article, “Street Lit With Publishing Cred: From Prison to a Four-Book Deal,” seems to be proof that writers do need rooms of their own: Gilmore (whose pen name is Relentless Aaron) …
While most writers know that book titles can’t be copyrighted, we have yet to see another Moby-Dick or Gone with the Wind. What’s far more common, as this site shows, is using same cover art for many different books. Doesn’t every writer love a good malapropism? This NY Times article reminded me of my days …
I can still remember the first story I ever wrote, when I was maybe eight or nine years old, on school notebook paper in what was then my fairly neat, legible handwriting. I think it may also have been illustrated. Perhaps because, back in my day, we still wrote high-school English papers by hand (I …
Perhaps some authors love having their photos taken, but I’m not one of them. In fact, I was planning to use my current author photo until the end of time … until I discovered the lovely photographs of Seattle photographer Rosanne Olson. I first encountered Rosanne’s work in her beautiful book, This Is Who I …