These past few weeks have been busy ones for me with several friends launching and promoting their latest works. First came Marc Aronson’s If Stones Could Speak. Then the joyous hullabaloo shared by all The Writers Circle over Stuart Lutz’s The Last Leaf. You all heard from Susan Barr-Toman yesterday and will hopefully make it [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Reading Aloud’
Two Great Friends, Three Great Events
Posted in book publicity, connecting, Great Writers, historical fiction, inspiration, Mentors, Publishing, Reading Aloud, Writing Events, tagged electronic publishing, Great Writers, historical fiction, inspiration, making connections, Mentoring, Publishing, Reading Aloud, Writing Events on April 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Poet in All of Us
Posted in Creative Writing, Great Writers, inspiration, literary genres, Literary Performance, Reading Aloud, writers organizations, Writing Events, tagged Creative Writing, Genius, Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, Great Writers, great writing, inspiration, literary genres, making connections, PEN World Voices Festival, Reading Aloud, writers organizations, Writing Events on April 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I am not a poet. I would never claim to be. If writing were music, I prefer to play conductor to soloist. My fiction would be a symphony, not a piece for solo piano. But the craft of a prose writer also involves cadences, subtle pauses for thought, deeper undercurrents and expressions that run just [...]
Old Story, New Spot – Another guest post from The Writers Circle on Backspace’s STET!
Posted in Creative Writing, Reading Aloud, Writers Groups, writers organizations, tagged Creative Writing, inspiration, Reading Aloud, writers organizations, writers support on August 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
How lovely! As I’ve been taking a bit of time off from teaching and therefore from blogging, the virtual world nonetheless seems interested in what I have to say! My blog-post from late May, The Storyteller’s Fire, is today’s featured post on Backspace’s terrific new blog, STET! Backspace is a vibrant online writing community that [...]
Lessons from Poets
Posted in Creative Writing, Finding your voice, Great Writers, inspiration, Literary Performance, Reading Aloud, tagged Creative Writing, Finding your voice, Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, Great Writers, great writing, inspiration, Poetry, Reading Aloud on July 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Poetry can feel, at times, as rarified as air, precious for its purity, its essentialness, its glittering, fluid, whimsical magnificence. It gives weight to simplicity and simplicity to weight, nourishing on levels more ephemeral and yet more visceral than prose. As I write my novels, I have often pondered the poetry in my words. All [...]
The Storyteller’s Fire
Posted in Creative Writing, Finding your voice, inspiration, Literary Performance, Reading Aloud, Writers Groups, tagged Creative Writing, inspiration, Reading Aloud, storytelling on May 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
As our Writers Circle prepares for its Creative Arts Showcase next week, I can’t help but be fully aware of the challenge of reading aloud, both from a perspective of performance and as a tool for the writer. My classes and groups have almost always worked orally. We sit around our table and learn to [...]
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