By Alison Hill, https://www.mshorror.com “We all have a novel in us,” so the saying goes. I've found the process of writing fiction both magical and laborious. Getting the first draft down is an intense process. The story seems to write itself. Once I start tapping out words, there comes a point when it takes off. Thoughts, scenes, and storyline are coming so fast that I write in a frenzied fog. Ten hours whizz by with techno music blaring in the background, [...]
The McKimmon Center at NC State University By Don Vaughan, donaldvaughan.com Online registration for Write Now! 2019 closes at 5 p.m. on Thursday, April 25. Have you registered yet? If not, why? Registering early saves you a lot of money compared to the at-the-door rate of $109. But even that is great bargain when you consider what you’re getting: Personal access to well-published industry professionals who can help advance your writing career, including New York [...]
By Mike Rumble, http://rumblesrumblings.wordpress.com/ Well, that’s it. Gone. Adiós. Au revoir! Three hundred and sixty-five days later at the stroke of midnight, 2018 is gone in a puff of smokeand gives way to 2019, a new year with a new beginning. The great thing about January 1st is that we get to ask ourselves the question, “How was the year for me?” It allows us to look back at the year now behind us and learn from its successes and failures so that the year ahead of[...]
By Margaret Toman The TAF forum posed this morning an existential question for those of us who move through time and space addicted to the printed word: “What, exactly, do you get out of reading? How does it enrich your life?” My initial response to the question is below, with the caveat that I continue to think about the answer. Fun, pleasure, information, adventure, and a sense of past and future were the preliminary answers of the questioner to his own question, and I concur. [...]