Create Your Own Writing Space at Home
…(à la Emily Dickinson) exclusively set aside for writing sessions. Take a portable lap desk into the basement, a closet, or onto the porch. Repurpose a familiar surface like a…
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Ask Becca: The 3 Deadly Symptoms of Self-Doubt
…don’t stuff their half-finished manuscripts in desk drawers, consumed with crippling terror that they’ll never be the next J.K. Rowling or Shakespeare or Emily Dickinson. News flash: You won’t! You’ll…
Why the Book Proposal for Your Food Memoir Will Be Rejected
…a popular website. Or perhaps the inspiration for your book started with social media like Emily Nunn’s The Comfort Food Diaries. Perfect. You want to show that you’ve created an…
Indie basics: It’s a business. Treat it that way.
…31, 2019” is a SMART goal. This blog post by Emily Esposito is a solid resource on how to write SMART goals. In a future post we’ll look at writing…
#5OnFri: Five Writer Wins
…fiction (and occasionally memoir) is where my dreams lie. I’ve committed to my novels and short stories completely, and I’ve never had a happier writing life. Emily Published a Book…
Want to Write Your Best? Find Your Writing Community!
…wrote without critique groups and writing circles, and who managed to write brilliantly without any feedback!” Well, maybe, but I tend to doubt it. Even notorious recluse Emily Dickinson would…
July 2023 Leisure Learning: Word Nerd Tourism!
…I have contacted Google about this issue.) If you are a Charlotte, Anne, or Emily Brontë fan, you will definitely want to check out Hawthorne parsonage and see the real…
Beyond Crazy Rich Asians: A Look at Humorous Fiction
…Weisberger This snarky narrative is split between three women each trying to uncover a betrayal in their ultra-rich Connecticut town. One of the women, Emily Charlton, starred in another Weisberger…
Exploring the Theme of Legacy in ‘Station Eleven’
…ideas? Let’s use Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven as an example. This post-apocalyptic bestseller begins on the night that a flu pandemic breaks out in Toronto, Canada, then moves…
Episode 377: The Art of the American Essay Anthology – Interview with Phillip Lopate
…• Lina Ferreira • Lynn Freed • Rivka Galchen • Ross Gay • Louise Glück • Emily Fox Gordon • Patricia Hampl • Aleksandar Hemon • Samantha Irby • Leslie…
