Writing

Arthur Miller, Ally McBeal, and Me

Jessica Queller | Posted 05.07.2008 | Living

Read More: Gossip Girl Writing, Ally McBeal, Gossip Girl Writers, Writing, Gossip Girl, Screenwriting, Living News
Jessica Queller

People often ask me how I became a writer. My standard reply: "It took me until the age of twenty-nine to figure out I didn't want to marry a manic-depressive, alcoholic writer, I just wanted to be one."

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When Darkness Turns to Day: A.L. Kennedy Talks About the Process of Writing War and Performing Stand-Up Comedy

Ashley Van Buren | Posted 05.07.2008 | Living

Read More: A.L. Kennedy, Stand-Up Comedy, Writing, Alison Kennedy, War, Day Book Review, Living News
Ashley Van Buren

Scottish writer Alison Louise (A.L.) Kennedy's words fall together on the page with such elegant precision, you barely notice how hard she must have worked to get them to that point.

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Read This And Become Acclaimed

Jeffrey Shaffer | Posted 05.04.2008 | Living

Read More: Storytelling, Memoirs, Writing, Living News
Jeffrey Shaffer

Attention all potential authors, which means just about everybody above age 12 who's not in an irreversible coma right now. I have started a new publ...

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The Way We Word

Catherine Specter | Posted 04.21.2008 | Living

Read More: Writing, Letter-Writing, Words, Living News
Catherine Specter

How difficult it can be to find the perfect thing to say or write, exactly when you need to say or write it. But thank goodness for words, whether written or spoken.

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Final Final Four Report: What a Game!

Lloyd Garver | Posted 04.09.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Sports, Final Four, Writing, NCAA Tournament, Kansas, Entertainment News
Lloyd Garver

There's a "rule" among members of the press covering a sporting event which states, "No cheering from the press box." Well, that rule went out the window somewhere in the second half.

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Watch Your Language!

Ann Medlock | Posted 03.06.2008 | Media

Read More: Suburbs, Elections, Domestic Terrorists, Terrorists, Terror, Pre-Emptive War, Housing Media, Campaigns, Writing, Katie Couric, News, Torture, English Language, Media News
Ann Medlock

I love this language you and I read, write and speak. And I'm seriously doubting that it's known to some of the unseen people who write the news.

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Poetry Beyond Words: Hypothyroidism, Hysteria, Witches and Suicide

Tamsin Rothschild | Posted 03.05.2008 | Living

Read More: Emotions, Depression, Writing, Poetry, Living News
Tamsin Rothschild

I am choosing the devil that I know and appreciating my emotionality for what it is, having glimpsed at the extreme of what it could be.

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The Dangers of Writing Fiction

Jennie Nash | Posted 01.29.2008 | Living

Read More: Memoir, Creativity, Writing Tips, Writing, The Arts, Fiction, Living News
Jennie Nash

People who are not engaged daily in conscious creative acts, like to believe that creativity is something that strikes like lightening from God.

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8 Tips for Writing from Flannery O'Connor

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 11.07.2007 | Living

Read More: Flannery O’Connor, How to Write, Writing Tips, Writing, The Habit of Being, Living News
Gretchen Rubin

O'Connor was a very idiosyncratic persion, and this advice is idiosyncratic, which makes it more interesting than a lot of writing tips that I see collected.

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How to Write About Terrible Things: An Interview With Dan Hoyle, Author and Performer of Tings Dey Happen.

Justin Hudnall | Posted 11.07.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Tings Dey Happen, Chevron, Playwriting, Off-Broadway, Africa, Creative Community, Writing, Globalization, Theater, Artists, Oil Politics, Peace Corps, Foreign Policy, Art, Dan Hoyle, Theatre, Oil, Political Corruption, Political Correctness, Fulbright, Niger, Escravos, Nigeria, Entertainment News
Justin Hudnall

Thankfully, there are artists like Dan Hoyle, a white guy who went to Nigeria on a Fulbright Scholarship to make a play about oil politics and globalization.

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