Give the person a deadline for when you need the manuscript back – if you are giving them the manuscript to them and not reading it to them. Give them a reminder a day or two before your due date. You might say, “I have worked out for Wednesday to be my manuscript workday, so I would appreciate what you have been able to do for me before Wednesday.
Writing Resources
I love writing, but I also love teaching writing and encouraging or coaching other writers. This part of my website is the natural outgrowth of that passion.
From time-to-time, I will add information or websites that I hope other writers might find useful, like this one from Purdue University:
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/subject_specific_writing/creative_writing/index.html
The owl at the beginning of the URL mean Online Writing Lab and it is the creation of Purdue University. This particular part of their site is the introduction to Creative Writing resources. If you look to your left, you will see just a glimpse of all the great resources available to you here.
Keep watching because I will add more resources, mostly dependent on either what I need or what my students need.
Creative Writing and Memoir Writing
Keep a journal for exploring how you feel about your writing, for writing exploratory short pieces, paragraphs, poetry, even as a portable tool to chase what comes to you when it comes to you. Then, if and when you want to, rewrite the entries in a much more polished book format,
Creative Writing and Memoir Writing
The point is that this is your writing space, your office as an author, and you and your body know that when you go to this place, it means work.
Creative Writing/ Memoir Class Notes
If you want to publish a book, you have to develop an audience to buy your book. You do that by building a platform - a tool you use to promote yourself and sell your writing. Your writing platform proves your ability as a writer to promote and sell your books.
Creative Writing and Memoir Class Notes
Nov. 4, 2020 Carol Brennan King Note class changes next week: Creative Writing will be from 9-11am and Memoir will be from 2-4pm. Assignments Creative Writing: We talked about seven emotions: joy, anger, worry, anxiety, sadness, fear, and fright. For next week, write a short piece that shows your character(s) experiencing emotions. The point is…Read more Creative Writing and Memoir Class Notes
Class Notes: Creative Writing and Memoir Oct. 28, 2020
Morrill goes on to say, “Character in nonfiction is shaped as much by an author’s omissions as by action.” You might change that to say, “Character is shown or shaped as much by implication as by action.”
Creative Writing/ Memoir
BUT there are other dimensions that we must think about that may require more time to choose how to show. We are now thinking of the dimension that we think of as within or insides or the depth of a person. Though these things may be more internal or foundational, they are as important or perhaps more important.
Creative Writing/Memoir Notes 10/14/20
Remember. whether you are writing fiction or nonfiction, you must know who you are talking/writing about. So think about what you know and what you must discover.
Creative Writing/Memoir Class Notes October 7, 2020 by Carol Brennan King
Do you choose to make your point by developing one issue ata a time or do you put lots of "nuts" in there and let your reader sort them out? I am not sure readers like guessing.
Creative Writing and Memoir Writing 9/30, 2020
Consider a time you were disappointed by another person or by the outcome of a great effort. What did you do or what did you want to do with that disappointment? Paint the scene with words.
