by Jill Marr, Agent, Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency If you are just learning a new craft, such as knitting, you’d certainly study up on the basic skills and tools you would need in order to knit well–for instance the difference between knitting and purling, getting to know patterned stitches, you’ll want to become familiar with
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Using Self-Hypnosis as a Writing Tool!
Happy New Year from 2020 SFWC presenter Suzette Martinez Standring! I look forward to presenting a new tool at the San Francisco Writers Conference to enliven and make writing more vivid: self-hypnosis. Wait. What? Yes, self-hypnosis can be a powerful tool for writing creativity. (This program is separate from my Master’s Class on Column Writing.) Writers
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Happy New Year! Treat yourself to the San Francisco Writers Conference 2020
Happy Holiday Season! From the SFWC Team
Time to Polish your Prose and Enter the San Francisco Writing Contest!
Time to Polish your Prose and Enter the San Francisco Writing Contest! Each year hundreds of writers spend a bit of extra effort over the holidays to polish the first 1,500 words of a short story, article, novel, nonfiction book, flash fiction, or other piece of writing and enter it into the prestigious San Francisco
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Tracing the Truth: Adventures in Historical Research Online and In-Person by Taryn Edwards
Part Two In my last blog post (November) I set you on the path to creating a research plan. One of the most important components of such a plan is to think about what sources you will need for your research and consider who might have created them or who might have compiled the data
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