Books, tea, great conversation and a support group. A Tulsa, Oklahoma book club is taking reading to a whole new high. Sisters Sippin Tea, or SST for short, is made up of African American women from all walks of life. There are wives, mothers…
Writer Interview Cornelia Barr lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, with her husband Matt, two exuberant dogs, and six cats; they all follow the adventures of her daughter Annemarie, from teaching in New York City to sailing on a tall ship to dancing flamenco in Spain. Moe: When did you know you wanted to be a…
Writing is what you do when you compose an email. Creating is what you do when you compose War and Peace. To paraphrase Mark Twain, the first resembles the second as the lightning bug resembles lightning. The movement from composing an email to composing War and Peace isn’t quantitative: it isn’t the process of stringing…
Here is an interesting situation. The author of Marley & Me, John Grogan, used to write a column for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Because he wrote the articles for the paper they own the rights to the columns. The Philadelphia Inquirer is now releasing a book about these columns (Bad Dogs Have More Fun: Selected Writings…
Writing Tip Avoidance. One of mankind’s most common traits. Writer’s know how to use it well. It shows up in self talk and conversations under the guise of “Maybe” and “Hopefully”. They are our way of getting around our personal writing goals. “Hopefully I’ll get to writing today.” “Maybe if everything goes well I’ll write.”…
In Seattle, Washington lives Eleanor (Joely Richardson) Dunston, a lovely, sweet and lonely heiress with terminal cancer. She hires Cynthia (Molly Parker) to take care of her in her in the end stages of her life. This review was published on 6/7/2007 at Literary Fiction, BellaOnline. The full review of Under Heaven can now be…
Writer Interview Patricia Kennelly is a freelance writer, chef and restaurant owner who lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She is a contributing editor at Garden and Hearth and the editor of Pikes Peak Writers News Magazine. Moe: When did you know you wanted to be a writer? Patricia Kennelly: I was ten, my cousin and…
Providing yourself with some visual motivation is easier than you think. One of the first things you need to do is organize your space. Now, writers have been known to use this as a great stalling technique from writing; but if you have to keep organizing your space it obviously isn’t working for you. Piles…