‘News’ Archives
Extreme Writing Now Network ~ Episode 1, Memoirs
Sunday, July 25th 2010, Extreme Writing Now went live with the inaugural episode of the Extreme Writing Now Network radio show on Blog Talk Radio. The show opened up a weekly broadcast that can be heard every Sunday at 6:30 EST (-5 GMT) at Extreme Writing Now Network. The [Read More]
This Weeks Round-Up at Extreme Writing Now
Last Week at Extreme Writing Now: Announcements Extreme Writing Now Goes Live! Authors Corner The Long Road Home (Part 11) Ports of Call The Long Road Home (Part 10) The Long Road Home (Part 9) A Trip Down Coffee Lane Of Artichokes and Desert Rain Ghostwriter’s Hell ~ [Read More]
Weekly Round Up at Extreme Writing Now ~ July 11 2010 thru July 17 2010
This Past Week at Extreme Writing Now Flash Fiction The Long Road Home (Part 5) The Eye Of The Dragon ~ 55 Spoken Words The Long Road Home (Part 4) Looking Back At Norman The Long Road Home (Part 3) The Long Road Home (Continued) Bird on a Wire Veil of Destruction The Long [Read More]
Extreme Writing Now | July 4 to July 10 2010
This past week at EWN: Authors Corner Less Flowery Moments The Beanery Queen Writing Memoir Now Some-bot-y New Maybe Douglas Adams Was Right Cock Tales Books Writing Memoir Now Chickens, Mules, and Two Old Fools ~ Book Review Flash Fiction Some-bot-y New News Building A [Read More]
Building A Short Story ~ The End Is Near
Eight weeks ago tomorrow, we started the series . The series is an exercise in creating greater works of fiction from smaller, micro-fiction. In our case, we started with a 55 word fiction piece called The Heart of the Hound. For those who are just jumping in: we have been [Read More]
Extreme Writing Now | June 26 to July 3 2010
The Week in Review at Extreme Writing Now: Announcements Extreme Writing Now Is Open To Writers Authors Corner Hangover Trail of Fears Jumper Wife Comes Home From Visiting Her Mother Puppy Love I can’t drive 55…can I? | My first attempt at 55 words Shushing [Read More]
Building A Short Story ~ Swimming at Six
Tomorrow will bring our 6th installment in our series, , and we are swimming in the depths of the short story pool. For those of you who haven’t been following along, we started out 6 weeks ago splashing around with a piece as the cornerstone on which we are building [Read More]
The Winner Is…
We held the grand re-opening of Extreme Writing Now yesterday, June 28, 2010, and although the site is still somewhat under construction, everyone had a blast. I thank each and every member. Without you guys, there would be only the empty and lonely halls of EWN. Halls that [Read More]
Extreme Writing Now | June 20 to 26 2010
A look at last week at Extreme Writing Now: Announcements Grand Re-Opening of Extreme Writing Now Authors Corner The Garden Ol’ Betsy Writer’s Block News This Guy Got Paid and He Sucks Building A Short Story ~ We Have Lift Off! Writing Building A Short Story ~ [Read More]
This Guy Got Paid and He Sucks
Seriously, do you really believe you are not a writer? Come on, you know you have the will to write, and most likely have enough life experiences to write something tearful or funny. Some of have even thought it would be cool to sit around in our jammies all day and write [Read More]
Building A Short Story ~ We Have Lift Off!
Tomorrow, June 25th, 2010, our series, , leaves the world of flash fiction and takes its first step into the fronteer of short stories. What started out as a morsel will be officially a short story by this time tomorrow as we step from and blast to 1760. Just in case you [Read More]
Building a Short Story ~ Week 5
Wow, seems just like yesterday we started the Building A Short Story series with our 55 word piece, the Heart of the Hound, but it has been five weeks. The series makes its last stop in flash fiction city tomorrow, June 18th, as we take a big step from 440 to 880 words. [Read More]
Two Lions in Utah
Maybe the truest thing anyone has ever said about writers is that everyone is indeed a writer. The only difference between those of us who do write and the ones who do not is courage. [Read More]
Looking Towards 440 ~ The 220 Word Leap
Tomorrow, June 11th, 2010, our series, Building a Short Story, continues as we grow or story to 440 words. Building a Short Story is a bout a process of writing a short story by starting with a micro-fiction piece, in our case a 55 word fiction tale, and rewriting it [Read More]
Tim Cahill Is The Literate Outdoorsman
Tim Cahill moved from writing for Rolling Stone to helping form the publication known as Outside, a Rolling Stone spin off. Outside wasn't just the typical travel guide magazine full of 'Things to Do' or Where to Eat' articles. Nope, the writing was literary and told [Read More]
John Grisham Tries the Case Of Children’s Fiction
Legal thriller ace John Grisham, author of 24 published novels, has attacked the world of youngster yarns with his latest book, Theodore Boon: Kid Lawyer, and talks about the most difficult aspect of writing a novel for a young audience in the NPR article, [Read More]
Building A Short Story ~ Jumping to 220
Tomorrow, Friday June 4th, our once proud and mighty 55 word fiction tale will be three weeks old and 220 words strong. In the last two weeks, we took our story from 55 words to [Read More]
You Write the Book, You Have to Sell It
Author and newspaper columnist for the Houston Chronicle, Leon Hale, has eleven books published AND he’s learned about the one thing that most aspiring authors never give second thought to during the process. You write the book, if you want it to sell, you have to [Read More]
Building a Short Story ~ The Series Continues
Tomorrow, May 28th, we continue our series, Building a Short Story, by starting with a micro-fiction piece and rewriting by doubling the word count until we have a bona fide short story. [Read More]
Are We Literally Letting Our Children Down?
I think we all knew it, but really didn't want to take the time to correct it. Maybe because we are just as wrong as our children and really don't see a problem with it. Or do we have ourselves fooled? Fewer and fewer of our children are actually writing letters. [Read More]
