Category Archives: The Writing Room

The art and craft of writing. Writing tips.

GodsBigBlog: What Ever Happened to God?

Wondering what happened to God — and GodsBigBlog? It’s moved to another location, to its very own blog.

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The Writing Room: Can This Guy Make Me a Star?

I’m going to take Jeff Greenwald’s Page to Stage class. It starts next week at the Writers Grotto in SF.

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The Writing Room: Writing Tips — Free for Nothing!

I just discovered a site called Nieman Storyboard — great tips for nonfiction writers

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The Writing Room: Scholars — Like Lauren Winner — Who Write for the Rest of Us

By Barbara Falconer Newhall Lauren Winner, author of  the popular memoir Girl Meets God, was in San Francisco last weekend giving advice to religion scholars on how to write books for a general audience. Lauren is an academic — she’s assistant professor of Christian Spirituality at Duke Divinity School – but much of her advice to the scholars gathered for the American Academy [...]

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The Writing Room: Writing Tips from Jasmin Darznik of “Good Daughter” Fame

Writing tips from Jasmin Darznik: “The big lie of memoir is that the story ends.”

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