Posts Tagged ‘writers on writing’

Writers’ Project interview with Michelle Krell Kydd

Posted April 17, 2012 by
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Our latest Writers’ Project interview is live! This month, we sat down with Michelle Krell Kydd, who writes about the history, myth, and folklore behind different scents and flavors at her blog, Glass, Petal, Smoke, and various other outlets. It’s an unusual niche, so be sure to check it out and learn how Michelle discovered her “nose,” what she’s working on, and her love of the pencil.

While you’re there, you can catch up on some archived interviews with cookbook author Maggie Green and playwright J.D. Eames.

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Messy letters

Posted March 28, 2012 by
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Well, this is appropriate timing… I’ve been reading Janet Malcolm’s excellent book about Sylvia Plath, The Silent Woman, and a day after I blogged about handwritten fonts, I reached a passage where Malcolm describes a pack of letters from Plath’s husband, Ted Hughes, to the poet and biographer Anne Stevenson:

As I looked at the pages of dense, single-spaced typing, punctuated by x-ings-out and penned-in corrections, I had a nostalgic feeling. The clotted, irregular, unrepentantly messy pages brought back the letters we used to write one another in the 1950s and ’60s on our manual Olivettis and Smith Coronas, so different from the marmoreally cool and smooth letters young people write one another today on their Macintoshes and IBMs.

These days, I guess we’re just syntactically messy.

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Writers’ Project interview with Christian Patchell

Posted February 1, 2012 by
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Our first Writers’ Project interview of the year is now live!

This time, we talked with Christian Patchell, or “Patch” as he’s better known, a cartoonist and designer who recently published a book on his experience with cancer.

You can check out the interview at the Writers’ Project homepage. While you’re there, be sure to check out previous interviews for more advice and inspiration!

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Writers’ Project interview with Maggie Green

Posted November 3, 2011 by
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Our latest Writers’ Project interview is live!

This time, we chose to feature Maggie Green, a cookbook coach and author whose The Kentucky Fresh Cookbook features recipes that were inspired by the fresh, seasonal ingredients of her home state.

You can check out the interview at the Writers’ Project homepage. While you’re there, be sure to check out previous interviews with Jeff Abbott and Cole Wardell!

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Writers’ Project interview with J.D. Eames

Posted May 31, 2011 by
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Just in time for summer, we’ve posted a new Writers’ Project interview with playwright J.D. Eames, who talks about her writing routines, her online mockumentary, and her favorite pens and inks.

While you’re there, be sure to read through our older interviews for more information, inspiration, and advice!

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Writers’ Project interview with Cole Wardell

Posted February 16, 2011 by
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Our latest Writers’ Project interview is live! We did something a little different this time, catching up with Cole Wardell, an as-yet-unpublished writer who lives in Columbus, Ohio.

Anyway, be sure to check it out… and look through our older interviews for more information, inspiration, and advice!

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Habanas in Italy

Posted November 9, 2010 by
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Stephen Lloyd Webber, a New Mexico based poet, teacher, and our current Writers’ Project interviewee, has run writing and wellness retreats in Italy for the past few years. (“A peaceful, richly enlivening environment where people can truly dedicate themselves to their health and their writing.”)

Last summer, Karen donated a stack of Habanas for Stephen to give his participants. In this video, Stephen describes their reactions… Me, I just like watching the waves roll up against the shore.

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Writers’ Project interview with Stephen Lloyd Webber

Posted November 1, 2010 by
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Our latest Writers’ Project interview is live! We did something a little different this time and talked with Stephen Lloyd Webber, who is both a practicing poet as well as a writing instructor. Stephen’s wide-ranging blog offers plenty of inspiration and exercises; he also runs writing workshops and wellness retreats each summer in Italy.

Check out the interview to learn more about Stephen and read his thoughts on writing, teaching, and creativity.

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Writers’ Project interview with JT Ellison

Posted August 31, 2010 by
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Looking for some end-of-summer reading material? Check out our latest Writers’ Project interview, where bestselling author JT Ellison talks about her research, her writing routines, and her new book, The Immortals.

You’ll also find plenty of food for thought in our archives, where we’ve stored our previous interviews with Jeff Abbott and Damon Young.

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The view from Orhan Pamuk’s window

Posted August 4, 2010 by
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The New York Times had an interesting feature in Sunday’s “Week in Review” where they asked Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk to describe the view from his window. One sentence stood out in particular:

When my mind is busy with words, all by itself my eye moves away from the page and the tip of the fountain pen.

Also, isn’t this a great way to describe the interaction of a writer with his or her physical surroundings?

But I know some part of me is always busy with some part of the landscape, following the movements of the seagulls, trees and shadows, spotting boats and checking to see that the world is always there, always interesting and always a challenge to write about: an assurance that a writer needs to continue to write and a reader needs to continue to read.

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