Archive for the ‘ Writers ’ Category

How Is Writing Like Sex? Screenwriter Laura Goode Counts The Ways

After publishing her debut novel Sister Mischief last fall, self-described feminist poet Laura Goode tackled yet another genre, collaborating with best friend Meera Menon to write a feature film screenplay called Farah Goes Bang, the story of a woman who tries to lose her virginity while on the road campaigning for John Kerry in the [ READ MORE ]

Guest Blogger Michael Platania on The Power of Deadlines: Part III

Part III: The Book Completed After the death of my mother in August 2011, I decided to write a book about the amazing and surprising blessings I experienced the week of her funeral.  A friend and editor insisted I create a series of deadlines in order to complete the book, so I set a goal [ READ MORE ]

Guest Blogger Michael Platania on The Power of Deadlines: Part II

Part II: The Book Unfinished The perfect opening line kept me from completing my first book, Pleasant Plains.  After hundreds of attempts, I always returned to: A quick glance to the right was all it took for Thom to discover Buddy was no longer asleep. My goal was to introduce the main character, Thom, while [ READ MORE ]

Guest Blogger Michael Platania on The Power of Deadlines: Part I

Part I: The Book Began Seven years ago I started my first book, Right Turns in Pleasant Plains.  The story takes place in the small town of Pleasant Plains, where drivers only make right turns.  Thom, the protagonist, arrives shortly after his truck breaks down and discovers that right turns apply to life as well [ READ MORE ]

Honorary Sexy G: Scholar Bat Sheva Marcus

Before she collaborated with other sexual health experts to launch The Better Sex Blog, which posts free, accurate, and empowering sexual health information for women, Bat Sheva Marcus published her trailblazing study on female sexual response to vibrators in the Journal of Sexual Medicine. On The Better Sex Blog, Marcus contributes nonjudgmental, pro-sexual pleasure posts [ READ MORE ]

Honorary Sexy G: Marketing Guru Ken Stram

Ken Stram may be earning his living as the think tank behind 2Bridge Communications, a public relations firm that helps small and growing businesses reach the next level, but he’s earning his reputation as an entrepreneurial thought leader by sharing his business acumen freely and generously on his blog, Ken and the Art of Entrepreneurship. [ READ MORE ]

Honorary Sexy G: Dave X Robb

On his sassy blog, Dave X Robb explores topics as wildly diverse as pop music, grammar, gay sex, and grilled cheese, yet his growing collection of essays achieves a bizarre cohesiveness. He’s doing what we most love to see a blogger do well: tell his story through his own quirky combination of perspectives. Here’s an [ READ MORE ]

Honorary Sexy Grammarians: Globally Conscious Couples

Follow Stu and Mags while they hatch their scheme “to live in an intentional community while creating a healing cooperative business and a permaculture farm.” Their journey began last summer, when they quit their jobs and set a course for a worldwide tour to find their ideal location, learn worldwide techniques for their crafts, and [ READ MORE ]

Honorary Sexy G: Elizabeth O’Brien

Elizabeth O’Brien rocks at doing what everybody wants to do on Twitter. She posts often. She posts useful information in a fresh way. And she does it all in the space of a Tweet. @GrammarRocks buzzes daily with Tweet-sized free grammar lessons, some days dozens of them. Today she’s on a roll with useful, quick, [ READ MORE ]

Three New Books That Will Make You A Better Writer

Write from your heart, and you just might change the world. That’s what happened when Harriet Beacher Stowe published the courageous and controversial Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852. Recommended by the NYT Book Review, David S. Reynolds tells you how it all happened in Mightier Than the Sword. Ultimately, we write to communicate, and I [ READ MORE ]

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