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If you spend any time on Twitter as a writer, you might be lucky enough to find the #writingcommunity. This community is filled with an extraordinary amount of creative, intelligent and kind authors. Most have expertise in writing, publishing, agents, #pitmad pitches, and a great deal of other subjects that are must for survival as…
I see the questions on Twitter about once a week: Can you please help me name my characters? What is a good Swedish name for a character?
Discover Leo Tolstoy’s scathing critique of William Shakespeare’s works. In this remarkable 1906 essay, one literary giant dismantles another
D. C. Wright-Hammer is the innovative, independent author behind the Between Two Mind series. Born and raised in Northwest Indiana, his family, friends, and experiences from “The Region” were paramount in shaping
You are on vacation, driving across country. You are a couple days into the journey when you stop in the small desert town of Ever Springs. The town was named after a magic spring that no longer flows through downtown.
The Art of Fiction by Henry James: I should not have affixed so comprehensive a title to these few remarks, necessarily wanting in any completeness, upon a subject the full consideration of which would carry us far, did I not seem to discover a pretext
Writer’s block is something that can be discouraging to anyone. No writer wants to be in a position where your mind go blank in the middle of your writing.
This is Yeats meeting Wilde is probably one of the biggest literary meetings in history, but we forget. Writers today don’t know what it means to read the greats sometimes.
Yes, I know it’s difficult to tweet everyday for some authors (especially those who have a day job), but tweeting everyday is not as difficult as you think. Different
What kind of writing do you do on a regular basis? Are you a digital writing professional? A copywriter? An expert who focuses on social media campaigns and content curation?
This is a wonderfully short piece written by Walt Whitman. Honestly the more you know about Whitman the more interesting this subject becomes. The essay was written in 1892. Living in Brooklyn or New York city from this time forward, my life, then, and still more the following years, was curiously identified with Fulton ferry,…
Twain’s candid letter to Howells reveals his sharp literary opinions on Poe and Austen, showcasing his iconic wit and irreverent humor.
VIRTUE is like a rich stone, best plain set; and surely virtue is best, in a body that is comely, though not of delicate features; and that hath rather dignity of presence, than beauty of aspect. Neither is it almost seen, that very beautiful persons are otherwise of great virtue; as if nature were rather…
How do I promote my ebook in the real world? I got this questions the other day. Well really the author was telling me that he wrote an ebook, so places like books stores and coffee houses were out
“All talk on modern poetry, by people who know,” wrote Mr. Carl Sandburg in Poetry, “ends with dragging in Ezra Pound somewhere. He may be named only to be cursed as wanton and mocker, poseur, trifler and vagrant.