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September 15, 2014 No Responses

Writers Dispatch, Issue 1

September 15, 2014 • ISSUE 1 • News, Notes, & Events for Writers Welcome to issue #1 of Writers Dispatch, brought to you by Small Print Magazine. Links of Interest Why Writers Are the Worst Procrastinators – The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/02/why-writers-are-the-worst-procrastinators/283773/?single_page=t...

August 31, 2014 No Responses

Peter and the Wolf

Peter and the Wolf By Gene Wilburn For those who grew up with television, it’s hard to fathom the grip that radio once had on the imagination. In the small blue-collar town of Rock Falls, Illinois, in 1951, I was...

August 6, 2014 No Responses

Writing Cabin Not Required

Uninterrupted blocks of time are a requirement of any serious practice, but author Lev Grossman cautions against falling for the romantic notion that a writer needs to live in self-imposed exile to create great work. Visit BuzzFeed to read his...

August 4, 2014 No Responses

UNC Writing Center Handouts

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill maintains a list of writing-related, instructional handouts on its website: http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/ Overview of Handouts [one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0″] Writing the Paper Argumen...

August 3, 2014 No Responses

Small News

Response We’ve had, and continue to have, a great response to the Spring/Summer 2014 issue of Small Print Magazine. If you haven’t downloaded the PDF version of the Spring/Summer 2014 issue, take a few minutes to download a copy or...

January 15, 2014 No Responses

Murder Your Darlings

Origins Most writers know the phrase “murder your darlings” or “kill your darlings” that advises deleting what Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch called extraneous ornamentation. Deliberate or not, such self-indulgent writing draws attention to s...

July 10, 2013 No Responses

Free Braille & Audio Materials

U.S. citizens/residents who are unable to read due to a visual or another handicap might be eligible for free Braille and/or audio materials. The sign-up process takes very little time. Visit the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically...

June 4, 2013 No Responses

Style Sheet for Your Manuscript

Literary agent Rachelle Gardner offers good advice for keeping track of style, setting, names, and preferred spelling. See Rachelle Gardner’s article “How to Create a Style Sheet for Your Manuscript.” http://www.rachellegardner.com/2013/06/cr...

May 4, 2013 No Responses

Project Gutenberg Self-Publishing Press

Project Gutenberg offers free ebook distribution for authors. From PG’s website: The purpose of Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is to encourage the voluntary creation and distribution of electronic books. Project Gutenberg Self-Publi...