Writing Workshops LA
Striving to be a resource for our student writers and non-student writers, we blog writing prompts, writing advice, writing job listings, and as much book porn as possible.
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Presented Without Comment: the newly unveiled logo for the newly enacted College Football Playoff and the new poster for Lars von Trier’s...
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According to Rachel Fershleiser, who handles Tumblr’s literary strategic outreach, “Your URL might be a reference to what you love. The focus is...
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It’s LAUNCH week for Derek Palacio’s How to Shake the Other Man!
Only 200 share packages, and they’re going fast after only day one. $16 for a signed first edition
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“I’d say Wolitzer has written ‘a novel of ideas’ if said novel weren’t so engaging. (In my household, the phrase, “a novel of ideas,” is followed by...”
WWLA students are publishing, getting into grad school and writing conferences, performing, teaching, and having babies! A big congratulations to all of them.
Spring 2013 creative nonfiction students Jen Berkowitz, Marie Condron, L. Marie Cook, Andrea Dandino, Heather Fowler, Louisa Levine, Jennifer McCharen, and Amanda McRaven will be reading at a June event in Los Feliz.
Melissa Chadburn is a guest lecturer at UC San Diego, teaching Short Fiction, Personal Narrative and Creative Nonfiction. This summer she will attend the Graduate Summer Workshop at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
Jon Doyle‘s first novel, The Awareness, co-written with Gene Stone, will be released this August by NetMinds, under their NetMinds Select imprint.
Elisabeth Adwin Edwards will be attending the Napa Valley Writer’s Conference this summer, studying with poet Major Jackson.
Terrance Flynn was a finalist in this year’s Annual New South Writing Contest. His last reading as a PEN Emerging Voices Fellow will take place at the Hammer Museum on July 16.
Nina Katchadourian’s Sorted Book Project via io9
I’m going to go home and make one out of my own books
- Read every ‘on writing’ or ‘how to write’ list every real writer has ever written
- Contemplate everything you’ve done right and everything you’ve done horribly wrong in relation to these lists.
- Compare yourself to successful writers. Did you have similar upbringings? Similar educations or lack there of? Similar opinions on the semi-colon or oxford comma?
- Stare at a blank word document for a very, very long time.
- Block out time on your google calendar for ‘writing.’
- Coordinate your very own writing cocktail, to drink as you ‘write.’
- Make use of the Wikipedia Random Article button for inspiration.
- Spend hours in an internet wormhole.
- Build up a layered anxiety over all the books you haven’t read yet, and how those books might be the ones that really shape you as a writer.
- Buy books in bulk while you’re still only half way through the one you’re already reading.
- Subscribe to Tin House.
- Subscribe to n + 1.
- Review bank account to readjust funds to afford new subscriptions and used books.
- Research obscure literary journals that you may have tangential relation to for submission. You can build your way up.
- Readjust funds to include submission fees.
- Reread old essays from college in search for new perspectives on them.
- Look up the poetry prof who gave you a B+, just to see what he’s up to. (Hasn’t published in 8 years. Interesting.)
- Get proactive! Start a brand new blog that’s just for your writing.
- This blog is also anonymous so you can throw away your hangups and finally write freely.
- Alter the design and layout at least 4 times.
- Go on vacation.
Annie Fucking Werner, ladies and gentlemen!
I really enjoy closing out a Friday on a high note.
Also, Los Angeles Summer Specific Obstacles to Writing:
1. Helicopter noise.
2. Large swaths of land on fire.
3. Sun too bright.
4. Taco smell in the air.
(via thetinhouse)
It’s LAUNCH week for Derek Palacio’s How to Shake the Other Man!
Only 200 share packages, and they’re going fast after only day one. $16 for a signed first edition, handwritten thank you note from the author, and e-book version of the novella. This one’s right in front of you, guys. Don’t kick yourself later.
Go forth and launch!
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OH MY GOD. GET THAT COFFEE MUG OFF THAT BOOK. YOU’RE GOING TO SPILL IT. I KNOW YOU ARE GOING TO SPILL IT BECAUSE WE ALL HAVE OUR NOSES IN BOOKS AND THAT MAKES US CLUMSY.
