NaNoWriMo participant and Municipal Liaison Teresa Schultz-Jones writes about her motives and methods for the annual 50,000 word challenge and the secret she has uncovered over the last eight years of participating: “It’s a lot less about the novel than it is about discovering your inner author and learning to have fun with writing.”
Traci Brimhall blogs about gratitude this week: “I am grateful for strangers—for the people I’ve never met who write me emails after reading my work because they were moved by something or wanted to share a similar experience, and for the people I meet on sidewalks who help me stop my runaway papers or share their umbrellas on a walk to the parking lot.”
Visual art and writing collide in this week’s writing prompt.
The Writer’s Life would like to welcome Lauren Nicole Nixon—she will be contributing regularly about her experience as a poet, performer and the creative life in the city: “Getting back into the swing of being an active art-enthusiast is a mission that I’m serious about tackling. Reviewing Yvonne Rainer’s manifesto helped me to realize that sometimes, you have to set a concrete mission, in writing, to really push yourself into a new realm of consciousness. Inspired by Rainer’s decision to say ‘no,’ I decided to compose a brief ‘yes’ manifesto of my own.”
This week Traci stays home and shares some advice about the practical side of a book tour.
For this week’s featured writing prompt, take a seat.
Shana Thornton writes about the planning involved in her second NaNoWriMo, and how that has made the writing experience more enjoyable: “I harvested the research from my relatives—moonshine, alcohol stills, poke sallet festivals, cakewalks, long-rifles, magic recipes, midwifery and mysterious births and disappearances. Just planning the novel made my fingers itch to start typing, but I staved it off and upped the anticipation. I wanted the momentum of waiting for November 1st.”
Traci visits San Francisco: a couple of readings, a trip to City Lights Bookstore and some writing exercises with MFA students. A busy weekend filled with “skulls, beatboxing, suitcases, and candlelight.”
This week’s post is about interactions between grandmothers and grandchildren.
As I count down the days to NaNoWriMo 2011, I think about the genre I’ll work with this year. My first year of NaNoWriMo, I wrote an erotica novel. I did it for fun because I thought I would be able to finish such a novel, and I was right. Last year, I tried my [...]
Join Traci each week as she blogs about poetry and her daily writing life in the run up to her next title release, Our Lady of the Ruins. Listen to Traci's One World Café podcast here.
Lauren writes about her experience as a poet, performer and the creative life in the city. Listen to her One World Café Virtual Reading here.
With over fifty years of writing experience, Jyl posts about the writing process with occasional writing prompts to encourage your practice. Find out more about Jyl at jyllynnfelman.com.
