This is our ever growing list of writing tips. It is a general list of suggestions that we hope will help you in your writing and in the life of writing.
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The Jealous Earth by Scott Dominic Carpenter
In 2011 we published Scott Dominic Carpenter’s “The Birthday List” on EWR: Short Stories.
ipad for Writers? Maybe not yet.
The ipad is outstanding, of course. It is an amazing piece of visionary technology. It’s great for entertainment and fun, fun, fun, but as a writer should you dump your laptop and go to the smaller flashier screen?
Submitting Your Story by Charles Raymond Barrett
Submitting Your Story Because literature is an art and you have a leaning toward it, do not therefore consider yourself a genius and so exempt from work. There is no royal road to success, and no one ever yet won a high place in the world of letters who did not earn it by the […]
Art by Nate Howard
Nate Howard has traveled the world as a photojournalist. The photographs he sent to us were from, Russia, Mexico, Iraq, and Kosovo. Photography taken all around the world does not always have a lot of similarities
Writing Novels by Arnold Bennett
The novelist is he who, having seen life, and being so excited by it that he absolutely must transmit the vision to others, chooses narrative fiction as the liveliest vehicle for the relief of his feelings
Christmas Crackers by W.F. Dawson (1902)
One of the popular institutions inseparable from the festivities of Christmastide has long been the “cracker.” The satisfaction which young people especially experience in pulling the opposite ends
Art by William R. “Dooby” Tomkins Jr.
William R. “Dooby” Tomkins Jr. earned his degree as a bachelor of fine arts with a concentration in painting and drawing at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in May 2005. While at UTC William became very interested in the postmodern painting practice of image appropriation. William is also very interested in mass media imagery […]
How to begin a Letter by Lewis Carrol
If the Letter is to be in answer to another, begin by getting out that other letter and reading it through, in order to refresh your memory, as to what it is you have to answer,
Art by James Sholes
Yawn James Sholes is an artist and teacher from Ohio. James has worked in education for 10 years teaching almost all levels of students including university students at Firelands College. James has been an artist all his life. You can contact the artist at jamessholes (at) yahoo (dot) com.
Great Gift and Option for Self Publishing
Blurb is a company that recently came across our radar, and I have to say I like what I see. They offer self-publishing and on demand printing for anyone looking. Now if you just want to put together a very nice looking photo book of all your memories, I’m very sure the writer in your life would love it…
Inspiration for Writers 11 Cool Sites
The following is a list of 11 writing sites that will bring you inspiration in your writing. They are prompt sites, or sites with exercises, or just very cool stuff to play with.
Art by Christopher Woods
Christopher Woods is a writer, teacher and photographer who lives in Texas. His books include a prose collection, UNDER A RIVERBED SKY, and a book of stage monologues for actors, HEART SPEAK.
Short Story about Tech Issues
Well if you searched our site on Google yesterday, and maybe today, you will see a warning that says our site “may have been compromised.” Boy did this get us all jumping. We did not know that around the time of the Google crawl, we had someone having fun with the site. When I say fun, I mean they were trying to cause us all kinds of trouble and break into our home page
Awards Writers Should Know
Awards Writers Should Know We think the net is a tool. Sure it’s a community, a voice, an amplifier, but it was created as a tool. To that end we think that great writers will want to read great works. They might be in a genre or literary fiction, but knowing and reading great works […]