Just 500 words? 1000? Piece of cake! Or is it? Writing meaningful blog posts involves more than opening a vein and bleeding onto the page.* I know. Since 2008, I’ve been blogging about food, cooking, and culinary history. And I’ve learned a few things. Creating blog posts resembles following a … Read More
Five hundred words. Or maybe a thousand. That’s all. The Writers Alliance of Gainesville blog needs YOU to write on topics of your choice, at least those pertaining to any aspect of writing. Share your expertise, your experience, your hard-earned knowledge about writing with your colleagues. Your name might not … Read More
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. ~ George Orwell In 1949, George Orwell sat in … Read More
Far from being fearless, authors tend to be anxious people who are duking it out with their anxieties on the page. They don’t write despite their fear but because of it. They want to wrestle the alligator. ~ Ralph Keyes I heard them before I saw them. My … Read More