Title: How to be a Famous Writer Before You’re Dead (Your Words in Print and Your Name in Lights)
Author: Ariel Gore
Writing books and magazines used to be in my staple reading diet. I devoured them. But, I’ve pretty much abandoned the habit in the last few years.
I guess, after a while, all the advice just began to sound the same to me. There was nothing new, nothing revealing, nothing that excited me enough to want to actually WRITE.
Then I saw this book at the library a few months ago. I …
Every learner begins with the basics. In this series, we look at some first steps in creative writing. And, yes, it’s like going back to learn one’s ABCs.
Over the past years that I’ve been working with writers of every kind, I’ve often encountered the question: How do you write and get published?
We can’t always be filled with ideas every single day of our writing life. And, whenever bright ideas do come, we can’t always write a full-length article, story, or poem about each idea either.
Hello and welcome to another year! So, are you as excited about 2009 as I am?
For some reason, I am feeling more optimistic about doing more writing this year than I have ever done in the last couple of years. And, I’m already looking forward to trying new and different things once again. Perhaps, even start on a good project or two.
What about you? Have you included “writing” in your New Year’s Plans/Resolutions? What are your goals for writing this year?
Whatever they may be, I wish you all the best. …
To celebrate my part-return to eWriteLife and get back to a bit of writing, I finally decided to join NaNoWriMo. I’ve been wanting to take part in this event for many years now. But, I’ve always found a reason not to. I guess, the thought of it just scares and intimidates me.
So, instead of over-thinking it, I decided just to give it a go. It doesn’t even matter if I ‘win’ and complete a novel or not. I just want to try it. See how it will work. Wish me …
It has been over a year and a half since I last updated this site. The last time was just before I had a baby in March 2007. That time, I tried to create a webzine side using Joomla and separated the blog side using WordPress.
Bad move, I say. Not only did it complicate the whole process, it made the site appear disjointed. No wonder I was left uninspired when it comes to trying to blog here.
Ah, well. I guess, I’ll just blame it on pregnancy hormones. …
This site is always changing, always evolving… And now, it’s in its latest form: a webzine-weblog combo. Well, sort of.
It’s a long story how it all happened. So, let me just give you the quick version: eWriteLife started as just part of my personal site, hosted on a freeserver many years ago. Then, it went to its own domain, with paid hosting. It was just like any other website then - with a few additions like newsletters/ezines, forums, mailing lists, etc. It even had columnists and contributors - and …
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1) What is the best writing about love that you know of? Write about it.
2) List 5 things that you love. Then, list 5 people that you love.
3) Write about your first love.
4) Create your own definition of love.
5) Complete the sentence: “Love brings…”
Hello and welcome to a new year. How did your writing go in 2006? Did you meet your goals? What were your milestones and lessons learned? Did you make new writing resolutions for 2007 yet?
If you’ve written about these things on your blog, please feel free to share them right here.
