I'm happy to report that the indie
writer community here in NZ is steadily banding together to help and support each other.
Not exact matches
All you guys make up a great blog
community but don't criticize the
writers or editors
here, seemingly innocuous comments get under their skin on a site they created to encourage that kind of dialog for our enjoyment and expression and for their profit.
Here the aspiring
writer bumps into a story idea: She takes a look at life in the white
community from the perspective of the families» African - American maids (two of whom are played by Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer).
While there are a number of ways to build a
community of
writers through professional development, the process described
here is a simple one.
I outlined the opportunity for libraries to facilitate
community publishing by helping local
writers become professional ebook self - publishers (View my library ebooks presentation
here).
As for your notion that predatory presses such as Author Solutions (not AuthorSource) in any way help
writers,
here's a link to what I hope is a helpful column on that very subject I wrote for a professional
writers»
community about four months ago: http://novelspaces.blogspot.com/2014/02/beware-vanity-in-independents-clothing.html
You,
here at
Writer Unboxed and on the
community page of FB.
And yes, I think it's part of each regular contributor's commitment
here at
Writer Unboxed to offer as much response to the
community of comment
writers as we can each month when we post.
Christine is
here today because she generously agreed to answer a slew of questions posed by members of the
Writer Unboxed Facebook
community.
Here are more sites where authors can promote their books, interact with readers and gain visibility: Red Room: A
community founded around the idea that writing transforms individuals and sometimes whole societies — whether you're a
writer or a reader, you're part of something special.
I've found the author
community as very supportive however, so I hope you find a place to nurture your dreams and get sage advice from your fellow
writers, like
here on TKZ & other organizations.
Our mission is to foster an online
community of independent authors and
writers all around the globe, who can come
here to find resources for improving both their craft and their careers.
One option to get involved and gain attention for your work
here on the Indie
Writer's Network is to get involved in
community blogging.
But there's a hospital; a number of excellent restaurants including a gourmet organic bistro; a fancy polo club where you can enjoy mimosas and watch a game over brunch; a
community arts centre that received equipment and training from the Cirque de Soleil whose founder has a house
here; a turtle conservation project; music festivals during the high season; ibogaine clinics that treat drug addicts with a African plant medicine; a skate park; an excellent multi-lingual folky band that plays every week at a bar serving both excellent pizza and gourmet teas; and the town attracts all sorts of creative, interesting people — surfers, dancers,
writers, artists, musicians, yoga teachers, hippies.
Here he became friends with fellow artists Kenny Scharf and Jean - Michel Basquiat, as well as the musicians, performance artists and graffiti
writers that comprised the burgeoning art
community.
In a New York Times review of her 2008 mid-career retrospective at the Guggeneheim,
writer Holland Cotter said, «The bottom - line subject
here, as elsewhere in Ms. Opie's work, was
community — elusive, longed - for, temporary, lost.»
Among an ever expanding (and as Karen Barad might say, «entangled») list, I am inspired by the complex and contradictory city I live in (the city of Chicago) and the incredible
community of hard working, sincere, talented artists who I am surround by and have the privilege of working alongside and in collaboration with every day (too many and to diverse to name individually
here) / / by mentors A. Laurie Palmer and Claire Pentecost and Anne Wilson and Ben Nicholson / / by Simon Starling and Andrea Zittel and Mark Dion and Sarah Sze and Phoebe Wasburn and Mierele Laderman Ukeles and Joseph Beuys and Eva Hesse and Hans Haacke and Robert Smithson / / by
writers and philosophers Karen Barad and Jane Bennett and Rebecca Solnit and Italo Calvino and Steward Brand and the contributors to The Whole Earth Catalog (of which my father gave me his copies) and Ken Issacs and Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson and William Cronon and Bruno Latour and Deluze and Guttari and Jack Burnham / / by ideas of radical intimacy and transformation and ephemerality and experimentation and growth and agency and mobility and nomadicism and balance and maintenance and survival and change and subjectivity and hylozoism and living structures / / by mycelium and soil and terracotta and honey and mead and wild yeast and beeswax and fat and felt and salt and sulfur and bismuth and meteorites and microbes and algae and oil and carbon and tar and water and lightening and electricity and oak and maple / / by exploration and navigation and «the Age of Wonder» and the Mir Space Station and the Deep Tunnel Project / / by Lake Michigan and the Chicago River and waterways and canals and oceans and puddles... to name a few.
Posted by professional resume
writer on February 19, 2010 at 6:16 am permalink Reply I got the above advice forum with me
here, it is better to get a
community where you can get solutions, answers to your questions there instead of doing timeless surveys.
• Karen Wyld is a freelance
writer and consultant based in South Australia, with a background in Aboriginal health, research,
community development and health workforce training (You can support her writing
here).