The Sunday Salon "What is the Sunday Salon? Imagine some university library's vast reading room. It's filled with people–students and faculty and strangers who've wandered in. They're seated at great oaken desks, books piled all around them, and they're all feverishly reading and jotting notes in their leather-bound journals as they go. Later they'll mill [...]
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Professional writers are easy targets for public criticism. Often, bylines include an e-mail address, inviting instant responses from critics. How can writers handle public criticism with grace and humor? How do we acknowledge hurt feelings? Most importantly, how do we find the confidence to continue writing? Writer’s Digest – Surviving the Spite It’s painful, but [...]
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A few of you out there may be wondering why fiction writers need to do research at all. Can’t they just make everything up? Blogger and researcher Lisa Gold outlines the benefits and potential pitfalls of research, including: You don’t need to know everything about a subject in order to write about it…. And the [...]
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Soft Skull News: Russell Crowe to play Bill Hicks "Russell Crowe has revealed that he has a 'project based on the life of [the late] comedian Bill Hicks…'" STLWorkingMom: the St. Louis Working mom’s blog >> Letters for my son: One day ’til college So TRUE: "Grades – this is the last time in your [...]
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From my mighty, mighty inbox: Announcing a Piedmont Council of the Arts sponsored program by Virginia Commission for the Arts… The Life Cycle of Artists: Law, the Arts, and You Thursday, August 28th, 6-8pm Light House Studio 121 E. Water Street, Charlottesville A FREE Seminar for Visual, Performing, and Literary Artists Presented by the Virginia [...]
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WebWorkerDaily » Archive Wisdomap: Simple Mind Maps « "The latest Flash-based online mind-mapping tool to cross our paths is Wisdomap. They emphasize simplicity: you get nodes and links, without a lot of finicky controls for their appearance or even placement."
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WriterHouse has posted their Fall 2008 writing class schedule. Here are the titles: Creative Nonfiction Workshop Writing the College Application Essay Weekend Fiction Workshop: Refining and Deepening our Fiction Evening Fiction Workshop: Finding Your Voice Mechanics of Fiction: Reading For Writers Intensive Writing Workshop: Amp Up Your Productivity Poetry Workshop: Shaping the Language of Poetry [...]
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Writing My Twitter Etiquette Article: 14 Ways to Use Twitter Politely by Margaret Mason – The Morning News Number8: "What’s rude in life is rude on Twitter." The Wall of Shame… or How Can We Cure the Ills of the Single Copy Sales « Mr. Magazine "I have decided to visit the newsstands one more [...]
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Ninety-six printmakers of all experience levels, have joined together to produce 118 prints in any medium; woodcut, linocut, monotype, etching, lithograph, silkscreen, or any combination. The end result is a periodic table of elements intended to promote both science and the arts. Via: BookBalloon
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The 2008 Governor’s Arts Awards were announced last week. I’d like to take special note of two literature-related winners: Ralph Cohen and Jim Warren of Staunton. They will receive an award for their work with the American Shakespeare Center which they founded in 1988. They are also the founders of the only graduate program in [...]
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