Due to Covid 19
Be sure to wear your mask everywhere until we can meet again. Write while you can, tell your stories you own way. Stay safe.
35 Things to ask your characters – and yourself
If you ever watched the Actor’s Studio with James Lipton, you saw a version of the Proust Questionnaire. Here is the original list. Using it for your characters in long pieces really helps. 35 Questions Made Famous by Marcel Proust What is your idea of perfect happiness? What is your greatest fear? What is the…
Congratulations Grand Prize Winner – Grazina Smith!
In the writing process come a time when you begin to send things to different magazines, anthologies and contests. We are pleased to announce that one of our own has won the GRAND PRIZE in the Prose category of HOME, the 21st edition of the Black and White series of annual anthologies from Outrider Press in…
Genres defined – from Wikipedia
Of the dozen categories of fiction writing, the below descriptions are the most up-to-date definitions. Sometimes knowing what others call what you are doing, helps. Good writing. Drama – stories composed in verse or prose, usually for theatrical performance, where conflicts and emotion are expressed through dialogue and action Classic – fiction that has become…
Longwood Writers Guild 