Tag: writing
Writing can be brutal. Take the mantra kill your darlings. First mentioned in Arthur Quiller-Couch in On the Art of Writing in 1916 but often attributed to William Faulkner. As writers, we tear our writing apart repeatedly, boil down our precious words we have poured blood, sweat and tears over to produce to a fine honed piece of work a reader can immerse themselves.
Today I am with Jacque Vickers, a writer and arts enthusiast from Sydney, in Australia. Some short plays that she has written have been performed at various short play festivals. Last year, a short story that she wrote was published in Anthology Angels 2023 anthology: Hot Diggety Dog! Tales from the Bark Side.
Today I am with Vi Putrament, from London. She is a writer, editor and translator born in Warsaw and raised in New York City, specializing in science, folklore, fantasy and magic. She’s also a language editor for an astrophysics journal based at the Paris Observatory and writes science fiction and fantasy in every rare speck of spare time.
Prior to writing The Tinker, I’d finished reading Ann Pancake’s Strange As This Weather Has Been, about an Appalachian family struggling in the shadow of exploitative mountain top mining. Pancake’s book was the 2023 One Voice One West Virgina Read, and she was the Appalachian Heritage Writer In Residence that same year.
Today I am with S. E. Reed. She writes strange, haunting, real stories of people and places along old highways. Winner of the 2024 Florida Book Awards and the 2024 Paterson Prize for Books for Young People.Additionally, she's been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and won honorable mention twice in L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future Contest.
Today I am with Johnny Francis Wolf, from Key West, Florida. Homeless for the better part of these past 10 years, he has surfed friends’ couches, shared the offered bed, relied on the kindness of strangers — paying whenever possible, performing odd jobs. Johnny has been all over the place, from NY to LA, Taos and Santa Fe, Mojave Desert, Coast of North Carolina, points South and Southeast, back North to PA, hiking the hills, and looking for home. Still, he considers himself blessed.
Today I am with Kim Plasket. She enjoys writing horror and paranormal and romance. She has various stories in different anthologies of varying genres, such as The Thrill of the Hunt: Cabin Fever (Thrill of the Hunt Anthology Book 6), Scary Snippets: A Halloween Microfiction Anthology, and Blood From a Tombstone Volume 2: Fear
Today I am with Bruce Buchanan from Greensboro, North Carolina. He has been a professional writer for more than 25 years, as both an Associated Press award-winning newspaper reporter and, currently, the senior communications writer for an international law firm. He is the author of two previously published books and his debut YA fantasy novel, THE BLACKSMITH’S BOY
Today I am with Thom Hawkins from Maryland. He has written books soliciting anecdotes from people on a particular topic (In Name Only, A First Time for Anything, Alphabetical Orders, Musical Madeleines)—as well as children’s books (The Yeti Made Me Do It, Baldwin, Two Kings, Claudine)—and has co-authored several poetry books (Thirty Placebos; O, DeJoy; Slight Refreshments). His video art and drawings have been displayed at exhibitions or in performances in Baltimore, Wilmington (DE), Philadelphia, and New York. Thom has also appeared with the Baltimore Improv Group, Ignite Baltimore, Ignite DC, and on The Stoop Storytelling podcast.
Though I didn't become a published writer until my late 30's, those voices inside my head, voices we writers tend to hear, have kept me company since childhood. Because I can't climb inside other writers' minds, I have no way of knowing how much of what they put on the page is rooted in their own experiences, I just know that almost everything I’ve ever written, fiction and nonfiction, is rooted in mine.
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