Jan
4
Shhhh. The Silence Is Coming.
January 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Turn off and unplug why don’t you?
Dec
21
It Is Impossible For Me to Do This Very Long List of Things…
December 21, 2011 | Comments Off
Lists of note…
Dec
7
Stopping Traffic with Haiku
December 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment
If it’s been a while since you’ve checked out our parent site LiveWriters, here’s a great sample of what’s over there – (Livewriters curates a wonderful sampling of booknerdy, and free, videos every day.) And now for something completely different. Haiku Traffic Signs Bring Poetry To NYC Streets by NPR STAFF If you’re walking or biking [...]
Dec
2
Literary Round Up
December 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Here is something I’ve had on my list to share with you for a while – better late than never. Enjoy this transcript of a brilliant speech by the late David Foster Wallace. DAVID FOSTER WALLACE, IN HIS OWN WORDS IN MEMORIAM The world of letters has lost a giant. We have felt nourished by [...]
Nov
12
Humiliation, Eternally Documented
November 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment
When we’re writing, it’s inevitable that we will draw from our own experience. Whether in terms of story or character, there will almost always be shades of the self, flitting like ghosts in the margins. With the rise of blogging, social networks, and reality television, the lines of privacy are blurred to practically nothing. I’ve [...]
Oct
17
“Commonplace Books” For The Modern Age
October 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment
I am not sure where or how the rather dusty term “commonplace book” came up recently, but it strikes me that by definition a “commonplace book” could easily translate to the modern day blog. A commonplace book is “any manuscript that collects material along a common theme by an individual”, and they were a common [...]
Sep
22
Bookish Folderol of The Amusing Type
September 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment
They say that busting cliche is one of the best tools for a writer. Here’s an example of it in real life: Authors reading aloud while on a zip line… Futhermore… David Wilk, the idea man behind such sites as our very own LiveWriters as well as Booktrix and Writerscast, recently interviewed the talented author [...]
Aug
24
The Writer in Politics
August 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment
When it rains it pours! We’ve had so many fantastic guest posts recently. Thank you, thank you. And special thanks this week to Leora Skolkin-Smith for allowing us to post her wonderful piece from the Fiction Studio Books blog. Enjoy… The Writer In Politics by Leora Skolkin-Smith The question of “The Writer in Politics†is [...]
Aug
18
Where Is The Future? And Where Isn’t It?
August 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment
The new world of publishing may mean doing some things differently, but it doesn’t mean throwing everything out that’s worked for so many years…
Jul
11
Every once in a while we here at Livewires pose a question to an author. Our question for the summer is… How do you see the world changing from a writer’s point of view? We posed the question to author (and friend) Erica-Lyn Huberty. Erica-Lynn lives and writes on Long Island, and is the author [...]