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?

Friday, March 29, 2013

Writers I Can't Stop Reading, Part 1: Introduction

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There are certain writers that I start reading, and once I dig into that person’s work, I can’t stop. I have to read all of it. For each wri...
Sunday, March 24, 2013

How Do You Get Good Creative Ideas?

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Creative ideas originate from the natural siftings of thoughts that take place in our minds. We’re all constantly sorting through random ph...
Monday, March 18, 2013

How to Deliver Your Message, Part 6: Irony

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Irony is one of the sharpest tools at the disposal of a writer. Essentially, irony means saying the opposite of what you are conveying, ...
Tuesday, March 12, 2013

How to Deliver Your Message, Part 5: Summon the Winds of Righteousness

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There is another way to deliver a message that I haven’t discussed yet. It’s not an easy topic to approach for me in this context becau...
Monday, March 4, 2013

AWP highlights for Friday, March 8, 2013

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Here are my very personal and individual picks for this day at the conference of the Associated Writers and Writing Programs (AWP). 10:...
Friday, February 15, 2013

My Library Dilemma

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Nowadays when I prowl the aisles of shelves in the public library looking for a book to read, it’s so difficult to find the ri...
Friday, February 8, 2013

How to Deliver Your Message, Part 4: Coming out of Nowhere

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      One way to convey your theme to readers is not to lead up to it, as in The Big Moment , but to surprise the reader. At l...
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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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