Category Archives: Other Sites
Winter Wheat
Every year “Mid-American Review” hosts a writing festival at Bowling Green State University. This year Winter Wheat is November 17 to 19. I’ve attended the last two years and really enjoyed it. You meet fellow writers and get time to write! The sessions have led me to discover more about topics like memoir, cut and paste …
Halfway there…
The semester is nearly half over already. But some exciting things have happened. My contest with a writing friend to see who could write the most short stories resulted in her finishing one and me starting two. We decided to revise our contest for October with the goal to finish the most short stories. Then …
Flannery O’Connor Essay “Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction”
I wanted to share part of this essay with you. She wrote: “The great novels we get in the future are not going to be those that the public thinks it wants, or those that critics demand. They are going to be the kind of novels that interest the novelist. And the novels that interest …
Revision Tips
Two important writing tools that I use when I revise are readability and http://www.wordle.net. I learned of the readability feature in Microsoft Word from “The Writer’s Little Helper” by James V. Smith, Jr. To turn on the readability feature is simple. When you spell check a document, click on options and select “show readability statistics.” …
Six Words
“Narrative” is holding a contest for a six-word story. They had this to say about the form. “William Faulkner famously said that a novelist is a failed short story writer, and a short story writer is a failed poet. Hemingway, with his creation of the six-word story, combined poetry and drama into a short form …
Acceptance!
Tuesday afternoon I received an acceptance letter for two of my poems to be published in the October issue of “Heavy Hands Ink.” I am very excited to share these poems! Here is the link to the website if you want to check out the magazine before then: http://heavyhandsink.wordpress.com/
Fear
Fear has been the topic of the last couple of letters exchanged between Theresa and myself. What is fear? Why do we let fear hold us back? I read “10 Ways to Harness Fear and Fuel Your Writing” by Sage Cohen in Writer’s Digest September 2011 issue. The sentence “Fear exists to keep us safe” …
The Letter Project–Letter to Theresa
Check out the letter I wrote to Theresa.
Poetry versus Fiction
Whew. That was a long week. Yesterday I researched several literary magazines for submitting my work. If you aren’t already familiar with http://www.duotrope.com, you should definitely check them out as a source to help you discover markets for your work. They have been immensely helpful with my journey to navigate the Internet and find magazines. …
The Letter Project–Letter from Melanie
Here is Melanie’s response to my letter.
Suzanna and Writing 