When the years roll forward, as they inevitably will, will we look back at 2020 as the year of The Great Pause? The year that wasn’t? The year we stayed home? Certainly there was enough grief, chaos, loss and sorrow to go around, that’s for sure. We lost friends, family, jobs, our minds. We hoarded
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Latinx Voices Writing for Change
by NoNieqa Ramos Worldwide, we are experiencing a global pandemic and global environmental catastrophes. The deep roots of systemic racism entrenched in the foundations of our nation have been exposed and those who thrive from it fight to bury the truth. Locally we are grappling with how to protect public health and sustain our economies.
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Motivation All Day Every Day
by Laurie McLean We began this Motivation Monday series of blog posts in early March to help writers of all levels and experience to weather the storm that was the Covid-19 pandemic and quarantine. We wanted to keep your spirits up. We wanted to share wisdom from other writers and people in publishing. We wanted
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Walter Mosley speaks on not picking a lane, fomenting change, and the publishing industry
Podcast Interview by Joey Garcia with guest Walter Mosley. When questioned about his thoughts on writers sometimes being told to “pick a lane and stay in it,” i.e., choose fiction or nonfiction—but not both—Mosley explained that notion is inherently a capitalist one. He added that even when artists are told that what they are working
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What To Do When Your Book Tour is Cancelled
Motivation Monday: By Brian D. Anderson There are things I’ve learned from television over the years. Watching the Weather Channel, I learned that God hates trailer parks. From the History Channel, if we don’t know who built it…aliens. From the Science Channel, it’s only a matter of time before a comet will kill us all.
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Dear San Francisco Writers Conference family- Motivation Monday
Dear San Francisco Writers Conference family: We’re writers. We’re artists. We create. Yet, at this pivotal point in time we find ourselves adrift. Angry. Out of control. And it affects our writing. But it doesn’t have to affect it in a negative way. What about if we take this unusual time…this strange, horrible exile of
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