If you aspire to be a writer, or are already a professional, perhaps you need more than the most elaborate laptop on the market and all the typical writer’s tools. Maybe you should invest in a punching bag, too, or some other appropriate way to vent your anger.
It is an entire summer of house renovations and manuscript revisions. Will this writer survive?
Excerpt from Virgina Woolf’s unfinished memoirs. “Perhaps this is the strongest pleasure known to me. It is the rapture I get when in writing I seem to be discovering what belongs to what; making a scene come right; making a character come together. From this I reach what I might call a philosophy; at any rate it is a constrant idea of mine; that behind the cotton wool [of daily life] is hidden a pattern; that we–I mean all human beings–are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of art; that we are parts of the work of art. Hamlet or a Beethoven quartet is the truth about this vast mess that we call the world. But there is no Shakespeare, there is no Beethoven . . . we are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.”
This week marks the fifty year anniversary of Harper Lee’s only novel, To Kill a Mockingbird.
The story is narrated by six-year-old Scout Finch in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama. It was an immediate best-seller, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and an instant American classic. Many people believe it to be one of the greatest works of southern fiction written. It continues to sell incredibly well, with 30 million copies still in print.
In the Atlantic Monthly 2010 Fiction Issue is an essay by Richard Bausch entitled: How to Write in 700 Easy Lessons: The Case Against Writing Manuals. If you are an aspiring writer, you might find it interesting.
Quotes about art by Pablo Picasso and Thomas Merton.
Laura Millier, senior writer at Salon.com, writes about the changes going on in the publishing and self-publishing worlds and how this will effect readers.
The article is called: The democratization of slush: How do you find something good to read in the brave new self-published world.
Susan Gabriel, author of Seeking Sara Summers, interviewed by Anjuelle Floyd
Anjuelle Floyd interviews Susan Gabriel about her book, Seeking Sara Summers, and her writing process.
I received a letter from an old friend yesterday–a literal letter. It was such a treat and made me realize how much, in the age of email and facebook, I miss getting actual handwritten letters. What about you? Do you miss getting a letter in the mail? What was the last piece of real mail that you received?
