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Happy Valentine’s Day!
Posted in Community
Tagged knitted puppies, Laura Stanfill, Oregon Zoo, valentine's day, writer
7 Comments
Happy News–and the Shrinking of Newspapers’ Book Coverage
We have a lot of new author interviews coming up in 2013, including Anthony Lee Collins of U-town scheduled for New Year’s Eve. My writer-friend Kristen Forbes had her essay “Dream Girl” published in The Rumpus last week. It’s a candid … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Journalism, Reading, Writing
Tagged book reviews, Brave on the Page, Forest Avenue Press, Laura Stanfill, Oregonian, shrinking books coverage, writer
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Writing Challenge #19: Kathleen Lane’s Thing Collection
I’m honored to be in a writing group with author Kathleen Lane. She has a strong, compelling voice and an uncanny ability to mix humor, heartbreak and oddities of the human condition. I learn something new about myself every time I … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Writing, Writing Challenge
Tagged Kathleen Lane, Thing Collection, writer, writing advice
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Book of the Year and Other News
I’m new to being a small press publisher, with my first title just released in October, and I’ve already learned how much time marketing and setting up readings takes away from working with the words themselves. I’ve also learned that … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Reading, Writing
Tagged book of the year, Brave on the Page, Laura Stanfill, Oregon writers, powell's, small press, Staff Pick, writer
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Why I Started My Own Small Press
As many of you know, I’ve been working on a tight deadline to finish Brave on the Page, a collection of Oregon author interviews and essays, so it can be available at Wordstock, the Portland literary fest coming up in mid-October. I’m … Continue reading
A Letter to My Protagonist
Dear Henri, If you belonged to someone else, you would be at the end of your journey, standing in a glass aviary in Rhode Island, surveying where you have been during drafts one and two. If you belonged to a … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Revision, Writing
Tagged Laura Stanfill, letter to my protagonist, novel, protagonist, writer
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Past / Present
Do you ever bump into your old self? My family and I went camping on the Oregon coast this weekend, and on the way home, we stopped by my old newspaper office. I was managing editor there in 2004 and … Continue reading
Stockpile
I’ve published 200 posts here on my blog, but I have another forty drafts sitting around. Some are partially written, more general ideas than fleshed out posts. Others are ready to go. Some are outdated, like the wrapup of a … Continue reading
Get the Details Right
There’s nothing so jarring as to bump up against an ill-placed detail in a story. Especially in historical fiction. One phrase or out-of-place image can make the reader lose faith in the writer. And good writing on some level, I … Continue reading
Writing Challenge #17: Cutting Back on Minor Characters
Writing Challenge #16 focused on using organic metaphors to lend your minor characters more personality. This one is about the opposite–dealing with too many minor characters. Is your novel-in-progress full of bit players who are sitting around doing very little … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Plot, Writing, Writing Challenge
Tagged character, Laura Stanfill, minor character, novel, writer
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