Release your authentic voice
Lezlie Laws will introduce you to body awareness and deep breathing as tools that will help you find purposeful intention for your writing and develop the depth of concentration necessary for clear and creative writing to arise. Details…
If you want to learn more about how social media like Twitter, Facebook, and blogging can support your writing career, as well as how you can make email work for you, like I have made MAD’s Monday Muse work for me, I’ll be sharing the stage with Chris Hamilton for Social Networking for Writers, one of four all-day learning sessions put on by the Florida Writers Association in advance of their annual conference. Other sessions include: Warrior Writer with New York Times Bestselling author, Bob Mayer; Novel in a Day; From Query to Pitch; and Screenwriting: From Idea to Big Screen.
Unlike the full conference, you do not have to be a member of FWA to attend. Even better, the day’s proceeds go to support the Florida Writers Foundation efforts to promote literacy. Details…
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Maybe you travel with a road map, or maybe you like to wander a bit and see where it takes you.
“I never outline new projects, so that’s the first thing to say. I sort of feel like structure is something you discover rather than superimpose and my idea there is that superimposition makes the writing process secondary to the drafting process, if you will, the sort of blueprint process. And I don’t want to have to sit at the keyboard and act like a slave to some outline. I think that that makes the work structurally manipulative in a way. I can’t learn things about the characters. I can’t discover aspects of them I didn’t know about earlier on if this character absolutely has to go to the shopping mall and pull out a submachine gun. You know? If I’ve already decided that’s the case, there’s nothing in the process that’s magical or surprising to me and I don’t want to be in that position.” — Rick Moody, Big Think, July 28, 2010
When you write, do you need to know what happens next? Or do you write to surprise yourself? Share your thoughts in the comment section.