It’s me again, the college intern, here to talk about writing effective emails. During my time at university, I’ve experienced first hand how beneficial writing well can be to aspects of life not associated with writing for writing’s sake. Many of the rules I try to follow in creative or critical endeavors apply to daily […]
Fewer than a dozen of Emily Dickinson’s poems – including the one above – were published during her lifetime. Yet Dickinson kept writing poetry, adding to her backlist of poems until she had written something like 1800 of them. Maybe, just maybe, she valued writing poetry more than being published. Many of our clients ask […]
What do the following quotes from writers about writing have in common? “Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn’t wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say.” ~Sharon O’Brien “The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the […]
The Napoleonic Wars (1803 to 1815) had been raging for some time when PRIDE AND PREJUDICE was first published in 1813. But you sure wouldn’t know it from reading the book. In fact, you wouldn’t know anything about English politics of the time. Jane Austen just doesn’t go there. But papermaker and novelist Robert Bage […]
Jane Austen inspires love like almost no other author. We re-read her books regularly and we are not alone if the market in knock-offs is anything to go by. The most recent of these may be THE THREE WEISSMANNS OF WESTPORT by Cathleen Schine. This update of SENSE AND SENSIBILITY got a great review in […]
We wonder about this when we stumble onto writers’ blogs: if writers are blogging, are they writing? We blog to promote our business and we have no choice but to fit it in around our paying work. But during the times when business is slow and we actually have an opportunity to indulge in writing […]
#amwriting is a hashtag, a grouping of tweets relating to a particular subject. This one happens to be writers, tweeting as they progress through their writing day. We try not to retweet, but hey, it is August and we think this is a lot of fun, not necessarily good for the writing all these tweeters […]
“This schizophrenic second novel…veers from sluggish philosophizing and ponderous verbosity to snappy repartee and crisp narrative.” This is the beginning of a “Publishers Weekly” review for a 1992 novel called SEASON’S END. The review does not get any better as it goes on. SEASON’S END, a tale of minor league baseball and the American dream, […]
A girl with a tattoo is completely different from a girl with a dragon tattoo. The girl with the generic tattoo could be anybody these days, a college co-ed, a rock musician, the checker at the grocery store – and the tattoo could be anything from a discreet flower blossom to a full-blown demon. But […]