The internet, despite any attempts of being “transparent,” will always incorporate a level of anonymity. Social media only showcases a final product from one screen to another, with the drafts and real-life humans always on the other end, unseeable. AndreyPopov | Getty Images Twitter , for example, makes anonymity easy, as we only see an […]
Many moons ago, my late friend John Van Doorn strolled ‘round the newsroom flashing a $5 bill, promising it to whoever wrote the worst lede sentence in the next 30 minutes. Need I tell you I won? Let’s do some proactive forward-thinking pre-planning and unpack it and build some synergy toward a working consensus and […]
USA TODAY NETWORK CHILLICOTHE― Have you ever wanted to write a book or short story? Have you already written a book but the publishing side of things got confusing? Either way the Southern Ohio Writers’ Group can help you. The Southern Ohio Writer’s Group was started in 2014 and has been meeting at the Pump […]
I was 20 when I first told another person I’d been sexually abused as a child. My confessor is a dear friend; after nearly five decades he remains the oracle of a remarkably close circle of men forged together as American, middle-class Gen-X boys. Clem was post-high school, like me. Not yet seriously invested in […]
Click here to view original web page at Woody Allen announces retirement from filmmaking to focus on writing Film director Woody Allen attends a press conference at La Scala opera house, in Milan, Italy, on July 2, 2019. (Luca Bruno/AP) American Jewish actor and director Woody Allen announced Sunday that he is retiring from filmmaking […]
Click here to view original web page at ‘I think I was good, though I could have been better’: Terry Pratchett and the writing of his life After he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, the Discworld author began an autobiography. He never finished it, but seven years after his death, his long-time assistant has taken up […]
Click here to view original web page at Five Writers on How Writing with Creative Constraints Unlocked Their Projects From Dashiel Carrera, Matthew Vollmer, Matthew Tomkinson, Julie Carr, and Jean Marc Ah-Sen I have long been an anxious writer. Every sentence written reminds me of the hundreds more that could have stood in its place, […]
