Writing
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August 15, 2016
Here’s the process I’ll be trying out as I edit the nearly 500 pages of double-spaced text in my first draft.
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January 16, 2016
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January 5, 2016
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December 8, 2015
In the Facebook search bar, try “YourCity writers workshop”, substituting nearby city/area names. You’ll want to try several and note (pen and paper) the interesting ones for followup. In my case, I found four critique groups for writers.
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August 25, 2015
The Martian by Andy Weir, his first novel and soon to be a movie (click for trailer), was originally published on the author’s personal website without charge. You could read it free. That’s “free as in no money.”
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July 17, 2015
Writing from the heart occurs in two distinct phases: spew, and then clean it up.
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February 26, 2015
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February 13, 2015
Last night, I watched “Wise Blood” (1979 film production) as derived from the Flannery O’Conner novel of the same name. I say derived because the time of the story has been changed and, after watching the film, I suspect other changes and omissions, enough that Flannery, were she still alive, might want to distance herself from this production.