And Nothing Was Ever the Same Again
Mariana’s Notes From Big Sur, Summer 2012 A Five-Day Writing Workshop with Cheryl Strayed A little more than a year ago I met Emily on a porch overlooking the Pacific. Earlier I’d seen her sitting...
View ArticleQuickie: A Short Post on Sex Writing
This past weekend I took a sex writing class with Edan Lepucki, the founder of the Los Angeles Writing Workshop and author of the forthcoming novel CALIFORNIA (Little, Brown 2014). I learned that...
View ArticleReady, begin! – Nanowrimo Day 1
I reread the Nanowrimo Pep Talks today, archived in my email from the day I signed up to join in the challenge – to write 50,000 words in the month of November (an average of about 1700 words a day)....
View ArticleFive Grants & Residencies To Apply To This January – March
Every so often I think, residencies, grants – I should apply for some of those. And then I don’t. But now I’m making a new rule: for every magazine article I pitch I’m going to throw in one of these,...
View ArticleFive Tips from Stephen King’s “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”
– With notes from Emily and writer Scott Andrew Selby. 1) On First and Second Drafts: Every book is about something. The first draft, as King describes it, gets that something out of your head. “Your...
View ArticleTwitter to the Rescue, #MSWL hashtags and the tumblrs who love them.
Got a manuscript all done but hidden in that bottom drawer? As good as it might be, it’s not going to grow legs on it’s own That’s right, you’ve got to do the walking. And because it’s 2014, that...
View ArticleA Creative Retreat at Camp NaNoWriMo, April 1st – 30th
Are you ready to breath some fresh air into your writing practice this Spring? Let it be hot air if you’d like, as long as you lift yourself above the daily grind of revisions and drift into the...
View ArticleMFA vs NYC: Behind the Title
NYC vs MFA: The Two Cultures of American Fiction, Edited by Chad Harbach, is a collection of essays by writers who care deeply about one of these places and usually not so much about the other....
View ArticleThe Rattling Wall: Submission Deadline May 1st
The three year old LA based literary journal is accepting sophisticated short fiction (yes please!), travel essays (hm, something to think about) and poetry submissions (try something new, anyone?)....
View ArticleThe Best Fellowships and Retreats for Writers
If heaven is a writing desk, then what’s a writing desk in a cabin in the woods? With breakfast delivered to your door? That, my friend, is called a retreat. Sure you’ve heard of Yaddo’s 400-acre...
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