Few unpublished novelists or memoirists are able to convince a publisher to consider their work until it is complete. But it can be daunting to spend months or years bringing a book to completion with no assurance it will ever be published. Established authors can at times secure advances based on book proposals and a …
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I've got blogging on the brain, most likely because I'm conducting two different blogging workshops in the next few weeks leading up to the class I'm conducting in April and May. So this week's list of links on creativity and writing I tweeted this week includes a blogging category, because I was tweeting those as …
I asked this question of just about every creative I interviewed on my cross-country U.S. road trip. Now, in the first film I've produced since that road trip ended, I feature highlights from a few of those interviews. Hear from writers, musicians, and visual artists sharing when they first knew that they were on the …
Today we're featuring a guest post from Ann Simon, who like me is a writer in Northern Virginia. Below she shares with us her story of turning the quiet hours of an ex-pat experience into a novel, Jaguar Sees: The Lacquer Box. Every now and then, life bestows a free and beautiful gift. It arrives …
The Artist's Road 