by phelberg | Oct 3, 2016 | Blog, Writing Practice
In 1911, Mary Heaton Vorse told Sinclair Lewis that the “art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.” As an absolute basic bottom (heh) line, the statement is the truest advice a writer can receive. I personally think often...
by phelberg | Aug 29, 2016 | Blog, Writing Practice
by Pamela Helberg Writing is hard. Just a quick look at some of my favorite quotes about writing confirms this: If I waited til I felt like writing, I’d never write at all. Anne Tyler Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words. Mark Twain A...
by phelberg | Apr 17, 2016 | Blog, Writing Practice
Ask me what I am, and I’ll tell you I am a storyteller. That hasn’t changed over the years. When I was just a child, my mother had to wait patiently for an answer to what she believed a simple question. “Why did the principal of the kindergarten call saying you were...
by phelberg | Apr 10, 2016 | Blog, Publishing, Writing Practice
Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! –Lewis Carroll After I turned in the final drafts of each of my books–From Paradise to Puddledub (Coughing Dog Press 2002) Little Bookstore (2012 St. Martin’s Press) Public Health in...
by phelberg | Apr 3, 2016 | Blog, Writing Practice
by Anneliese Kamola I am writing a book. Well, trying. Should I admit to this? For context, I am a 29-year old, college-educated, white, bisexual, privileged woman from an upper-middle-class background. I only paid for my education through lack of sleep and stress—my...
by phelberg | Mar 13, 2016 | Blog, Featured Writers, Writing Practice
Like Alice Robb In last week’s blog, “In Praise of Writer Buddies,” I own the label of hermit scribbler,” a solitary figure at one with my keyboard even when I’m at the Village Books Writing Table, at my favorite library haunts in Ferndale and Burlington, or Café...
