To celebrate the tenth year of 49 Writers’ existence and this blog, we are reposting the work of earlier contributors. Today’s reposting was written by 49 Writers’ founding member, Andromeda Romano-Lax in July, 2011. She is the author of a nonfiction travel narrative and four novels, including Plum Rains, which was published in 2018. According to the […]
Reposting: Andromeda Romano-Lax—Editing and a Note on Hemingway Read More »
There is a question that I get every time I mention that I am an English major: what are you going to do with that? Sometimes it worries me because what can I do with that? I made the decision to become an English major because it was my only interest in my high school
Tidal Echoes: What to Do with an English Major? by Kelsey Walsh Read More »
I’ve warned you before—I’m obsessed with gardening. Especially this year, when after thirty-six years in Alaska, I moved to the Oregon Coast, where people informed me that everything would grow bigger and faster than I ever expected. It does. For the connections with writing, I blame Natalie Goldberg, whose wisdom I shared most recently when talking
Deb Vanasse | Dirty Secrets of Revision and Editing Read More »
Source: carpediem As a freelance editor and writing teacher, I’ve enjoyed working with all sorts of writers on all sorts of projects. Over the years, I’ve discovered there are four basic types of writers—and I’ve realized that at various times during my nearly twenty years of writing and publishing, I’ve fit into each of these
Deb – The Successful Writer: An Editor’s Perspective Read More »
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. ~Hannah Arendt A dozen years had passed since my first novel came out, and for the benefit of a group of students I was launching into my spiel of how the book came to be, a preemptive response to the inevitable question of where writers
Deb: The Big Picture Read More »
