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This Week's Headlines - 09/08/2010
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By Meghan Morrow
The world of fantasy has been growing steadily popular over the past decade from stories about witches and wizards to the lives of an obscene amount of vampires. Readers have been thirsting for the next great book and after sifting through practically every book on my reading list and becoming thoroughly depressed, I have finally found the story to take me out of my doldrums. Author Gene Doucette, of Beating Up Daddy: A Year in the Life of an Amateur Father, is introducing his newest novel titled, Immortal. From page one of Doucette’s book I was hooked and could hardly find the motivation to put it down—if only we had no need for sleep.
By Sara HallemanWritersNewsWeekly recently interviewed poet Rolli about his book, Plum Stuff, a collection of original poetry and drawings.
"Mavor’s Bones is my second book of poetry, though it was written first. I call it a “novel-in-poems” because it has a full cast of characters – including a duke, an orang-utan, and the late Charles Chaplin..."
Pre-Planning and the Writing Routine By Jessica Quillin
This week I begin several new writing projects, including a large-scale educational research paper and several longer term freelance assignments. In contemplating these new projects, I started to wonder about the best way to approach them. While the research paper requires a specific methodology, I always wonder how much advance planning I should do for other writing work.
Finding Feedback By L.L. McKinney
It has been over a week since I printed out Swayed, from the title page to the final word. I’m still running on the empowering boost of encouragement that came with holding my manuscript. Just thinking about it is enough to put a wide grin on my face, and I hope it had the same effect on everyone else who printed out their first draft.
