Advice for Writers

This blog provides advice to writers on their literary work. See the end of this post for links on these topics: How can you get the full benefit of workshops? How can you work best with your mentor? What, when, and how should you publish?

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

How to Finish a Book: Promise Yourself Rewards

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Completing a book-length project is never easy, but it’s something that writers need to learn how to do. It takes inspiration, desire, and h...
Friday, November 23, 2012

Literary Contests, For and Against

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There are many reasons to enter literary contests, and at least as many reasons not to. Hundreds of literary awards exist, and many thousa...
Saturday, November 17, 2012

One in the Other: A Surrealist Game for Writers

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One in the Other is a game invented by the Surrealist group in Paris in 1953. The game (called l’un dans l’autre in French) start...
Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Learning from Writers You Don't Like

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I taught for a number of years in the low-residency MFA in writing program at the University of Alaska, Anchorage . One of the assignments w...
Friday, November 9, 2012

Rilke's "Autumn Day"

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The poet Rainer Maria Rilke uses language in uniquely powerful ways in his moving poem, “Autumn Day” (“Herbsttag”). The poem appears in the ...
Monday, November 5, 2012

The Dramatic Monologue, Part 3: Writing Your Own

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If you’ve never tried writing a dramatic monologue, or you’d like to try again, what character should you pick? Maybe you already know whose...
Thursday, November 1, 2012

The Dramatic Monologue: Part 2, Pros and Cons

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The dramatic monologue has many advantages for a writer. The form allows for a distance between the author and the speaker. In a dramati...
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Zack Rogow is an award-winning author, editor, or translator of more than twenty books or plays. Zack’s memoir about his dad, the writer Lee Rogow, Hugging My Father’s Ghost, was published by Spuyten Duyvil. He is available for creative writing manuscript critiques. You can contact him at zrogow at berkeley dot edu. His other recent books include Irreverent Litanies, Talking with the Radio, and The Number Before Infinity. You can watch a brief documentary on his writing or watch him read on YouTube. He's the editor of an anthology of U.S. poetry, The Face of Poetry, published by University of California Press. The entries in this blog are Copyright © 2011 to 2026 by Zack Rogow.
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