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OPENINGS: Novel Writing Unchanged, The Writer, 1994
OPENINGS: Novel Writing Unchanged, The Writer, 1994. My workshops have always focused on hooking readers with craft elements taught to me by literary masters. Barnaby Conrad, founder of the renowned Santa Barbara Writers Conference, mentored me for many years. I ...
SCWC: The Goal To SUCK Less
SCWC: The Goal To SUCK Less – MarlaMiller.com As always, SCWC's executive director, Michael Steven Gregory, chatted about his passion: helping writers who attend SCWC 'suck less.' In the two decades + that he and Wes Albers have been at ...
SCWC: Birth of The Pitch Witch Workshop
SCWC: Birth of The Pitch Witch Workshop. We first taught this workshop at the So California Writers Conference in 2010. Given the response, we knew the Pitch Witch Workshop was needed and appreciated by writers on the road to publication.
Why learn this ...
Nonfiction Authors, Who Tells Your Story?
Nonfiction Authors, Who Tells Your Story?
On an eve of returning from SCWC's 2017 fall conference, I’m inspired to pen a few words about narrator voice.
My workshops had a mix of writers, fiction and nonfiction writers. It is the nonfiction writers-you ...
Iconic AuthorTom McGuane: Jealous of Writers?
Iconic Author Tom McGuane: Jealous of Writers?
One of the many snippets I video'ed of Tom McGuane speaking at the 2013 Santa Barbara Writers Conference. He was asked which writers he admires? His answer offers insight and humor.
Here's a recent Q/A with ...
Ray Bradbury Speaks From Beyond
Ray Bradbury Speaks From Beyond
Ray Bradbury Speaks From Beyond. My thanks to author Matthew Pallamary and Screenwriting.com for posting this reminder. As 2015 comes to a close, these words were spoken often by Ray Bradbury, an American literary treasure who walked ...
Conscious Uncoupling Crazy? Not To Me
Conscious Uncoupling Crazy? Not To Me Now that Gwenyth and her Cold Play hubby have confirmed what's been buzzing around for some time, the response to their statement of separation did not cause the reaction in me that it caused ...
Stephen Chbosky: Birthing A Book
Stephen Chbosky: Birthing A Book
In this video snippet (slightly shaky, sorry) Stephen Chbosky talks about birthing the Perks of Being A Wallflower. To entrepreneurial authors out here, please note how long it took this master craftsman to give birth to ...
Literary Salon: Learning Prose from Pro, Suzanne Redfearn
Literary Salon: Learning Prose from the Pros--episode one
Literary thriller author Suzanne Redfearn's willingness to be my first guest is more appreciated than she can know. Though I've spent a few decades interviewing folks, launching a new gig is always nerve racking-at ...
Pitch Witch Writers Workshop
Pitch Witch Writers Workshop
Screenwriters call it the 'elevator pitch' - no matter the name, the goal is the same: Should you meet a publishing professional in an elevator who you know is one of the pros you want to pitch ...