Summer in Words Writing Conference 2012 You don’t want to miss the stellar line up of professionals and bestselling authors so register soon. Expect craft workshops that you can immediately put to use and inspiration that will propel you to your next steps. If you’re staying at the Hallmark Inn & Resort, register by […]
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Writing is Hard
Time spent focusing on art is a privilege and a gift. The writing doesn’t make me happy, but it makes me happier, and it makes everything else easier to take. Stephen Elliot, from an essay first published in Tin House If you’re a writer you know that writing can be the best fun you’ll […]
Read the rest of this entry »A Few More Thoughts on Resonance
I keep circling back to the idea of resonance in writing, especially lately since it’s going to be one of the techniques explored during my upcoming Summer in Words Conference. For years now I’ve been trying to puzzle out exactly how writers achieve resonance in their stories. By resonance I mean the many layers of […]
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So here’s what you do: take your memories and present them to the reader. Take your passions. You take as much guilt and as little total depravity as you can safely mix in. You read. You steal. You want desperately to be a writer. You volunteer to nail your soft parts to a tree. You […]
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