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Matthew Felix quote Doubt is the Devil

Doubt is the Devil

November 20, 2020 By San Francisco Writers Conference

by Matthew Félix “Doubt is the Devil! Show doubt, and he’ll be back!” I woke up with the quote resounding in my mind. It was as though an old woman were standing over me waving her finger, scolding me to make sure I got the point. A couple of weeks earlier, I had received the

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Why We Write Grant Faulkner

Why Write?

October 9, 2020 By San Francisco Writers Conference

By Grant Faulkner Reposted with permission from the author. You can find the original post, entitled Why Write? A Manifesto to Fortify Your New Year’s Resolutions, here. One day a year or so ago, I was going through some old papers, and I discovered a notecard with my 2003 New Year’s resolutions on it. The depressing

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Will You Be A Witness - OG Rev Harry Williams

Will You Be A Witness?

September 4, 2020 By San Francisco Writers Conference

By Harry Louis Williams, II, a.k.a. O.G. Rev (OG Rev will be speaking in conversation with Randy Shaw at the Writing For Change: Worldwide on September 9. For more information, please visit the Writing For Change: Worldwide website. Or register here.) The newspaper masthead reads August 6, 1945. Its a sunny day in Nagasaki, Japan. You sit

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Finding Your Voice - Mary Rakow

Finding Your Voice

September 1, 2020 By San Francisco Writers Conference

By Mary Rakow (Mary Rakow will be teaching at the Writing For Change: Worldwide Craft Conference September 12-13. For more information, please visit the Writing For Change: Worldwide website. Or register here.) Finding our voice is both inward and social. Inward because our voice isn’t about word choice and style. It’s comes from how I experience

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Write a Book Starting at the End - Martha Alderson

Write a Book Starting at the End

August 14, 2020 By San Francisco Writers Conference

By Martha Alderson (Martha Alderson will be teaching at the Writing For Change: Worldwide Craft Conference September 12-13. For more information, please visit the Writing For Change: Worldwide website. Or register here.) Every book is made up of a beginning, middle, and an end. Usually writers start writing at the beginning of their books, a

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Memoir as a Method for Change - Brooke Warner

Memoir as a Method for Change

August 6, 2020 By San Francisco Writers Conference

by Brooke Warner (Brooke Warner will be speaking with Michelle Tea on the topic of using your memoir as a force for change at San Francisco Writing For Change: Worldwide on September 8. Register and join us for this Inspiration Conversation!) I was twelve or thirteen when I read Go Ask Alice. It was fiction,

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The San Francisco Writers Conference (“SFWC”) enjoys a rich literary culture. Over the course of four days in mid-February, over 500 attendees and renowned keynote authors, presenters, editors, and agents, attend SFWC, combining the best of both the traditional publishing industry with the latest technology to empower authors to publish anywhere. Situated just north of Silicon Valley, the SFWC is truly a one-of-a-kind celebration of craft, commerce, and community.

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