Best-selling author and USC Creative Writing Professor Gina B. Nahai talks with with Poets & Writers Magazine about finding inspiration. She offers this suggestion:
“(S)ome of my students who’ve had trouble finishing a book or a story because they keep second-guessing every word they write, swear by the Web application Write or Die, which ‘encourages writing [...]
Stories in Writing:
Tip: Try punishing the tendency to avoid writing
Beautiful bookstores, all-star libraries, LA stories
Chronicle Books twitters about this lovely photo gallery: The most interesting bookstores of the world. San Francisco’s Borderlands Bookstore, and its hairless Sphynx cat, makes the cut.
Library Journal showcases the nation’s “star” libraries, including sixteen here in California
The Los Angeles Music Center invites Angelenos to share their life stories and oral histories this month. The [...]
Quote of the day
“Of course writing can be taught. This is not to say that you can teach anyone to be Faulkner. But you can’t teach anyone to be Thelonius Monk, and no one questions the value of piano lessons. You can’t teach anyone to be Andre Aggasi, yet no one questions (at least from a tennis-playing perspective) [...]
Writers workshop
From Holt Uncensored: Ten Mistakes Writers Don’t See (But Can Easily Fix When They Do)
Tip: Try punishing the tendency to avoid writing
Beautiful bookstores, all-star libraries, LA stories
Chronicle Books twitters about this lovely photo gallery: The most interesting bookstores of the world. San Francisco’s Borderlands Bookstore, and its hairless Sphynx cat, makes the cut.
Library Journal showcases the nation’s “star” libraries, including sixteen here in California
The Los Angeles Music Center invites Angelenos to share their life stories and oral histories this month. The [...]
Quote of the day
“Of course writing can be taught. This is not to say that you can teach anyone to be Faulkner. But you can’t teach anyone to be Thelonius Monk, and no one questions the value of piano lessons. You can’t teach anyone to be Andre Aggasi, yet no one questions (at least from a tennis-playing perspective) [...]
Writers workshop
From Holt Uncensored: Ten Mistakes Writers Don’t See (But Can Easily Fix When They Do)
Meet the authors of the California Authors Directory. Visit the directory to discover writers like Andrew Sean Greer, a San Francisco novelist whose latest book, 
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July briefs: censorship, fires, new fiction and a b-day
No room for Freedom in Perry, Indiana. A veteran high school teacher in Perry, Indiana has been suspended without pay for teaching The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them. The book by Long Beach, California teacher/author Erin Gruwell and her students [...]
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