Instead, she focused on her passion — writing and helping
others become better writers!
Not exact matches
We talked a bit about how I
became a
writer, discouragement, finding your voice, blogging, the difference between blogging and book writing, why I decided to write Jesus Feminist, my process as a
writer, and the
best (and worst) parts of writing among
other things.
The
Good Food Project, run by local food
writer Susan Taylor, offers classroom tastings to help kids learn varieties of apples and
other foods, plus how to
become «food critics.»
Other reader choices show that when computers are a given, more novel tech
becomes standard: interactive whiteboards, digital cameras, iPods, and word processing (which won't by itself make kids
better writers but can make them more willing ones).
Other writers are often our
best resource for many aspects of writing and publishing — not just beta reading — so
becoming part of a writing community is helpful all around.
Erica Verrillo presents
Becoming a
Better Writer: Getting Critiques posted at Publishing... and
Other Forms of Insanity, saying, «It takes some courage, but getting your work critiqued is an important part of the creative process.
Many
good writers start out as
good readers;
others I know have had to work hard to
become better readers.
In
other words, while a
writer's tools may be important and can support
good writing habits, you can
become too dependent they
become impediments.
You will be able to find the errors much quicker than the
others and the process will help you to
become more confident and
better writer.
In
other words, keep writing and working on
becoming a
better writer.
Check out our resource library here at The Kill Zone (down the right sidebar), as
well as blogs like
Writer Unboxed, Janice Hardy's Fiction University (formerly The
Other Side of the Story), K. M. Weiland's Helping
Writers Become Authors, Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglisi's
Writers Helping
Writers (formerly The Bookshelf Muse), Elizabeth Craig's Mystery Writing is Murder, Joanna Penn's The Creative Penn, John Yeoman's The Wicked Writing Blog, and more.
In 2007, Kresley won the prestigious Romance
Writers of America RITA award for
best paranormal for her novel A Hunger Like No
Other, and in January 2009, she
became a # 1 New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller with her sixth IAD installment, Kiss of a Demon King.
Whether a
writer is is traditionally published or self - published, we all need to
become better at supporting each
other in our efforts and nurturing talent.
Studying, reading, and writing in
other genres can help you flex your creative muscles, expand your storytelling skills, help you
become a
well - rounded
writer — and ultimately, help you achieve your personal writing goals.
Otherwise we risk
becoming characters uttering lines of dialogue instead of working
writers helping each
other make
good decisions.
Basically we're the place you want to be if you want to
become a
better writer, while hanging out with
other awesome
writers too.
Hopefully Claire's example will help encourage
other kids hoping to
become writers to publish their own ebooks as
well.
I thought... as a young girl I would surely grow up to
become a great
writer, my parents had
other things in mind for me... so, I
became a teacher, still love to write, and books are my
best friends.
If you are quiet and have chosen to
become a
writer, an artist, or are just enjoying life strolling down the beach or sleeping in your hammock, choose a breed that can be quiet, steady,
good - natured but not too outgoing, and able to lie quietly at times and enjoy your bursts of insightful energy at
other times.
After a few courses, it
became apparent that fashion people think art people are the only ones who understand them, so John Currin and Rachel Feintstein, Massimiliano Gioni and Cecilia Alemani, Tracey Emin, Cathy Opie, Elmgreen & Dragset, Tim Blum and Jeff Poe, Nicky Verber, Toby Webster, Tate Modern director Chris Dercon, MoMA curator Laura Hoptman, and the many
other dealers and collectors on hand mixed
well with fashion editors,
writers, and models like Suzy Menkes, Sarah Mower, Penny Martin, and Annabelle Nielson.
Immersing himself in New York's downtown culture, he quickly
became a fixture on the artistic scene, befriending
other artists such as Jean - Michel Basquiat and Kenny Scharf, as
well as many of the most innovative musicians, poets, performance artists, and
writers of the period.
Although both had been feminist
writers and peace activists living in Brooklyn, NY for many years, playwright Karen Malpede and poet / novelist Jan Clausen didn't know each
other very
well until they spent a night in jail together following a civil disobedience arrest at the time of the Iraq invasion in 2003, after which they gradually
became better acquainted with each
other's work.