Just a reminder for out-of-towners attending the Claim Your Story Writing Conference  on April 12th in Ashland, Oregon : Friday, March 28 is the last day to receive a discounted hotel stay at the lovely Lithia Springs Resort. Details for this conference are here. Registration, however, is still open. Stay tuned for more updates from […]

Hello there, The Spring Writing Life newsletter was emailed this week,.. If you did not receive it please contact me at jessicapage(at)spiritone (dot) com. My email was giving me fits so I will be switching to MailChimp or a new program. My article was the second part of Haunted which is about using back story […]

“Words are substance strange. Speak one and the air ripples into another’s ears. Write one and the eye laps it up. But the sense transmutes, and the spoken word winds through the ear’s labyrinth into a sense that is no longer the nerve’s realm. The written word unfolds behind the eye into the world, world’s […]

  “I write because I have an idea I want to get out….Writing it feels better, and if what I write influences anyone, that’s unexpected and great.” Michele Weldon

Erle Stanley Gardner on writing

  I think the point of every sentence, every detail, factual or imagined, and every line of dialogue is to illuminate character and advance the story. Research has been, for me, a reassuring and intriguing line of luminarias. ~ Amy Bloom  

from my former blog The Writing Life Too. If you’d like to look through the archives you’ll find it here.