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Words to Write By
Take your writing, but not yourself seriously.
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January 25 Information is here.
Read the rest of this entry »“Use what you have, use what the world gives you. Use the first day of fall: bright flame before winter’s deadness; harvest; orange, gold, amber; cool nights and the smell of fire. Our tree-lined streets are set ablaze, our kitchens filled with the smells of nostalgia: apples bubbling into sauce, roasting squash, cinnamon, nutmeg, cider, […]
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Stay tuned for details about another stellar one-day conference. Date: January 25 Where: Tabor Space, Portland, Oregon Keynote speaker: Karen Karbo Information: topnotch and designed to give writers an edge in a changing market.
Read the rest of this entry »“Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.” —Allegra Goodman
Read the rest of this entry »“Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it’s the answer to everything. … It’s the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower […]
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Deep Fiction: The Anchor Scenes October 12, 2013 9:30 – 4:30 p.m. Tabor Space 5441 S.E. Belmont, the Library Portland, OR The task of a novelist or memoirist is to tell a story so riveting that it will hold a reader’s attention for hundreds of pages. This requires intimate knowledge of the characters, their inner […]
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Claim Your Story Writing Conference Lithia Springs Resort, Ashland, Oregon October 19, 9-5 Whether you write fiction, essays, or memoir, there is an art to stringing together words to elicit an emotional response from your readers. The first annual Claim Your Story Writers Conference, October 19th at the Lithia Springs Resort in Ashland, centers around […]
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And the year is spinning away. Days are growing shorter and the glittered-up glories of summer are fading. If summer has weakened your writing practice or made you foot draggy; if no splendid hopes keep you at your desk, take heart. Forget all those writerly maxims and get back at it. Here’s how: […]
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