Writers Wayside

Last summer, I attended a fiction writers workshop in Taos, New Mexico led by my cousin, novelist Sean Murphy, and his wife, journalist and fiction writer Tania Casselle. It was a lovely long weekend in the dramatic landscapes and historic sites of Taos, where I learned a lot about technique. I’ve made tentative stabs [...]

For years, I’ve struggled with keeping track of my notes. I take them in college-ruled notebooks thick and thin, day planners, scraps of paper, backs of envelopes, and most recently, I’ve made a point of taking all my travel writing related notes in slim Moleskin books that will stand the test of time, unlike the [...]

Thanks to a heads-up by my sister years ago, I’ve been subscribed to Funds for Writers since almost the very beginning (2001) of this breezy and simple e-newsletter for working writers. Editor C. Hope Clark pulls together tidbits about the writing life and a round-up of markets, contests, retreats, and the like. There are several [...]

I learned about Twitter during a SATW professional development course with Shel Holtz.  It’s one of several new forms of “microblogging,” where your blog post of very limited length (in this case, 140 words) can be “followed” by other Twitter users. You can choose whether to limit or block certain people, if you wish.
Shel uses [...]