Writing Tip: Caroline Starr Rose
June 14, 2022
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Caroline shares a memorable quote from an author friend, displayed on the bulletin board above her desk.
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Writing Tip: Will Hobbs
June 7, 2022
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Plot is the hardest part, and you can save yourself a lot of time and effort if you develop a dynamic premise before you start writing.
Writing Tips
May 31, 2022
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I have no doubt there are good writing teachers, and I applaud them, but I have never been able to teach it because, or so I tell myself, I’m still learning.
Making a flap
May 24, 2022
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When a book is published one of the very last bits of writing composed is the flap copy. This may be the first reading of the book that takes place.
Lived Experience
May 10, 2022
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This article is so well written and speaks to an issue anyone interested in books for young people needs to think about.
Beats
May 3, 2022
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When I was a high school upperclassman and had already committed to a life in theatre (as only an adolescent can do) I was an avid reader of Harold Clurman and Walter Kerr.
History as Story
April 26, 2022
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I’m a believer in what the philosopher George Santayana once wrote: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
“Less is more.”
April 19, 2022
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Years ago—so many that I was typing on a portable typewriter—I had a deadline to meet. It involved finishing a book, and then typing it and delivering it by a certain day. Soon. (I wish I could remember which book, but I can’t.) I asked if I could use a friend’s out-of-town summer bungalow and took
Editor/Writer—Writer/Editor
April 12, 2022
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For a variety of reasons these days, there is a bit of vogue for self-publishing. One can have no objections to that. That said, I think one can find fault with self-editing. Not so much because it is wrong to go without external editing, but because one’s work suffers.