In Their Own Writ Dept – Writers on Writing 2/8/13

We have perfected the cop show.

David Milch

Jad Abumrad: Why “Gut Churn” Is an Essential Part of the Creative Process

Jad Abumrad

Jad Abumrad is the Peabody Award winning host/creator of Radiolab, a radio show about being an artist, among other things. To the Jadman, the core of any creative process is the feeling of “radical uncertainty.”

In this broadcast, he talks about his own uncertainty and how it has helped him forge ahead into the uncharted territory that is the home of all of us who put ourselves on the line and create: read article

In Their Own Writ Dept – Writers on Writing 2/4/13

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can’t help it.

Leo Rosten

5 Tips To Getting Published

Some helpful words from an internet writing guru who doesn’t know we exist…oh, the humanity of it all!

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by Charlotte Rains Dixon (Wordstrumpet.Com)

So, as most of you know, my novel, Emma Jean’s Bad Behaviordebuts on February 12th. read article

In Their Own Writ Dept – Writers on Writing 1/30/13

Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me — the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art.

Anais Nin