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It’s #newepisode day in #stopWritingAlone land! This week I had the opportunity to chat with @jeffgoins about how he got his start, where he finds his #writingcommunity, and how we can create our own #tribe. Thanks again, Jeff, for the great chat! Find the Stop Writing Alone podcast @applepodcasts @stitcherpodcasts @spotify @podbean @castbox_fm @googleplaymusic and anywhere else podcasts are played (if you can’t find Stop Writing Alone on your podcast player of choice, please let me know so I can make that happen!). #happylistening everyone! #realartistsdontstarve #youareawriter #theartofwork #tribewriters https://www.instagram.com/p/BwZkPO1hBUP/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1gvhu1ovqb1ub

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#truth #thestruggles #bethewriter #youareawriter

Reading back on your old unfinished writing and trying to figure out where you were going with it

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Year Gone By - The Report Card

Year Gone By – The Report Card

At the end of the year like most of us I’m looking back and thinking what I learnt, gained and lost this past year.  Kind of a report card if you will.  You don’t have to read further if it doesn’t interest you.

This year my second baby girl arrived.  Blessed.  But man is it tough to have two kids.. Don’t even get me started there.

I missed a great vacation with my friends.. and instead spent…

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Let’s do this! #writer #write #writing #youareawriter #book

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Bookmark This : Unlocking a Manuscript, One Revision at a Time

As the Final Reading for the 2015 Emerging Voices Fellows approaches each of the five writers take a moment to reflect on their favorite aspects of the fellowship. Current Emerging Voices Fellow Nancy Lynée Woo writes about her experience with Mentor Victoria Chang, and finding a new beginning.

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As the 2015 Emerging Voices Fellowship pulls to a close, I am grateful for every hurdle and breakthrough. I’m thankful for my mentor, Victoria Chang, and her devoted attention to my long, messy and very raw manuscript. It is a gift to have trained eyes on your work, with a smart heart to translate. Every pivotal moment, from the UCLA Extension Class, Author Evenings, Master Class, Voice Class, and Public Readings, supported my work-in-progress—and my view of myself as a writer.

I’d never had a dedicated mentor in any field, but I came ready to be receptive. I entered the Emerging Voices Fellowship with an undisciplined collection of around sixty poems and no idea what to do next. Except for a few, they were sloppy first drafts. I was not skilled in poetry revision.

I work as a copyeditor, so I know how to edit. But to revise? As poet Douglas Kearney illuminated one Author Evening, revision means to re-vision, to see again. This requires patience and perseverance—to rethink what was originally put down on the page, and consider the second or third (or eighty-third) thought. Having someone particularly adept offering suggestions and fresh angles helped me learn how to navigate my own questions.

Victoria guided me to reorder poems, trim and whittle, identify missing perspectives, develop a reading list, brainstorm new ways of approaching subjects, and generally broaden the scope of my work. She often asked of a poem, “How can this be complicated?” Complication is a funny thing to work towards, almost counterintuitive, because don’t we often seek easier, lighter, quicker? Poets push against this pervasive norm; writing is an endurance sport.  

After about four revisions over the past seven months, the manuscript is now beginning to take shape. And I mean just beginning. If I thought I’d zip in and zip out with a finished book in hand, that was before I realized writing is more like fishing than sprinting.

I am lucky to have had a mentor not only skilled in craft but also emotionally sensitive to my distinct brand of anxiety. Some of our most memorable conversations were about what it means to live a writing life. After being encouraged to take my work seriously, I’m walking out of this fellowship having reached not an end but a sincere beginning. I have some sharper blades, a more resolute confidence and a determination to continue what I started.

You could be a 2016 Emerging Voices Fellow! For more information and to apply : https://penusa.org/programs/emerging-voices.

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Guest Review Of You Are A Writer

Today we have the joy of sharing a guest review from our friend Jesse (who goes by @dzhecci on Twitter). Jesse chose to review: You Are A Writer by Jeff Goins. Without further ado here are Jesse’s thoughts:

You Are A Writer (review)

I am a writer. If I learned nothing else from Jeff Goins’s book, I learned that. I learned other things, too, though, which is the point. But the most important…

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First Lines : Oh! You Pretty Things

“A few hours before I quit my job, I’m stuck at the light on Rose and Pacific, watching a string of kids wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the name of their preschool–’Blackberry Atelier’–as they cross the dirty asphalt. Harried teachers urge them onward while supermodel-beautiful moms in Fred Segal sweatpants bring up the rear, tapping urgently on their cellphones.

Another perfect day in Venice, California.”

–Shanna Mahin

 To read more of Shanna Mahin’s debut novel, refer writers to apply to PEN Center USA’s Emerging Voices Fellowship 2016 and win a signed copy.

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Deep Cover : Ron Carlson Writes a Story

“Every story is a kind of puzzle. Many have obvious solutions, and some have no solution at all.”

– Ron Carlson, former Emerging Voices Mentor and Director of the Graduate Program in Fiction at the University of California, Irvine, will be tonight’s featured author for a q&a with the 2015 Emerging Voices Fellows.

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The List : Emerging Voices Mentors

Did you know that each year PEN Center USA’s Emerging Voices Fellowship pairs each fellow with a professional author?

Here are some words on writing from five past mentors:

1. “Human diversity is expressed through the multiplicity of spoken and written languages."                                                                                              – Harryette Mullen, Emerging Voices Mentor ‘99, ‘00 and ‘13

2. “Every word on your blog is a word not in your book.”                                – Sherman Alexie, Emerging Voice Mentor ‘02

3. “Writing every day can be a powerful action, a gesture of belief in one's own imagination.”                                                                                                – Aimee Bender, Emerging Voices Mentor ‘06

4. “Stories were the medium we used in my family for communication... I learned quickly that if I wanted to enter the conversation I better have a good story, or at least a joke.”                                                                            – Samantha Dunn, Emerging Voices Mentor ‘06

5. “I always write from my own experiences, whether I've had them or not.” – Ron Carlson, Emerging Voices Mentor ‘12 

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That Part-time Thing Part II

That Part-time Thing Part II

Idea Generation??

Last week we identified wasteful activities and eliminate them from our daily schedule to make time to shoot or spend towards learning our craft. We identified how we can take out time from existing schedules for our crafts and still be available to be a husband, dad, son and a friend.

So, now that you have made some time, what do you do with it?  Do you have some ideas that you…