by Site Owner | Jun 28, 2016 | Columns, Featured, Writers on Writing
On Cyber-Bullying: With great power comes great responsibility—not just for Spiderman When I was a teenager, I was short, wore braces, and had a huge nose that just didn’t seem to belong on my face. My own friends called me metal-mouth, witch, and midget, and that was...
by Site Owner | Jun 14, 2016 | Columns, Featured, Writers on Writing
Ashley Prentice Norton on Writing Whenever people find out I’m a writer, the first thing they always want to know is what my “process” is. I’m all about the discipline method. When I’m working on something, it’s usually every day...
by Site Owner | May 10, 2016 | Columns, Featured, Writers on Writing
In Their Own Words—Giving Voice to Historical Figures in Fiction I’ve tried to create a collage in A Front Page Affair. I layer historical figures, real places, accurate geographies, actual news, accurate dates and all kinds of period ephemera – like...
by Site Owner | May 3, 2016 | Columns, Featured, Writers on Writing
The Difficult Centerpiece of Shot in Detroit Shot in Detroit is the story a female photographer desperate to find artistic success. Through her relationship with a mortician, she comes up with the idea of photographing young black men who have died in Detroit over a...
by Site Owner | Apr 26, 2016 | Columns, Featured, Writers on Writing
Read Millennial Writers I’m a firm believer that to read a person’s writing is to understand them. Or, when taken with a larger whole, to understand that culture, that place, that zeitgeist. To get kitschy, reading allows us to peer into another’s soul and shows us...