Spirit of the Wind by Marylee Burns, pen name for CWC Tri-Valley member Marylee Nurrenbern, has been published in Moments of the Soul, an anthology released by Spirit First Publishing, November 27, 2010. This paperback is available online from the publisher and Amazon.com.
Becky Levine is the author of The Writing & Critique Group Survival Guide (Writer’s Digest, 2010) and a freelance writer and editor, living in the Santa Cruz mountains. She has almost 20 years of experience with critique groups and knows both the challenges and benefits of making the critique process work. Becky is also working …
Jack Russ announces the publication of his debut novel, In Dangerous Waters (Alamo Hills Press, November 2010), a thriller set during the Korean War and drawing on many of his own experiences as a Naval officer.
I stole someone’s grocery cart this week; didn’t notice until I got to the checkout line and my reusable grocery bags weren’t there. A pleasant and efficient clerk found my bags in an empty, unattended cart. I thanked him, paid for my groceries, and left. Once home, I discovered I had bought someone else’s breakfast …
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December brings childhood memories of stockings hung behind an open-face heater in absence of a fireplace. Chocolate drops and ribbon candy. The aroma of baking pies. A diary filled with handsome boys, elite schools, sports cars, and fabulous careers. None materialized as I imagined. I discarded the diary and continued to dream. At retirement, I …
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Patrick Coyle, Bobbie Kinkead and Violet Carr Moore were winners in the National Novel in a Month (NaNoWriMo) contest to draft a new 50,000-word novel in thirty days.
Great news, technology is booming. Writers have more options than ever before to get their writing out there. The first step, getting the written words into a format that can be submitted, shouldn’t be the hardest step. Voice recognition software is one tool that can increase a writer’s productivity. If you are partially fluent in …
The publication of Mark Twain’s autobiography reminded me of how quickly the world is changing. Twain wanted to write honestly, so willed that this book not be published until 100 years after his death. In a Twitter world, all I could think was, “Filters. What a quaint notion.” I blog, and subscribe to a couple …
Mark Twain mind, Twitter world by Lani Longshore Read More »
When lighting a candle isn’t an option, should we curse the dark or learn to write with the lights off? I’m not the only writer who is struck with wonderful ideas at the most inconvenient times. The more disciplined among us actually stop what they’re doing and write notes. I am not so disciplined, especially …
Ghosts and goblins disappeared at midnight October 31st while my fingers hovered over computer keys to click the first words of National Novel in a Month Writers contest. Futuristic writers extracted spooks from closets with paranormal or sci-fi tales and waited alongside suspense and romance writers. Millions of new characters were born. Authors will nurture …
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