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?

Monday, January 18, 2016

Writing a Fictional Plot Based on a True Story: Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge

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I recently read Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge . I enjoyed the play, and was about to put the volume back on my bookshelf when I no...
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Thursday, December 31, 2015

Pathos: What It Is, and How Writers Evoke It

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Pathos is one of the emotions writers most frequently evoke in their work. The noun pathos comes from ancient Greek and from the verb πάσχε...
Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Editing by Rewriting from Scratch

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When we edit, most of us tend to tinker. We substitute a word or phrase here, we prune a word or two there. We don’t make major changes in ...
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Saturday, November 14, 2015

The Influence of Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!

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I just finished listening to the audiobook of William Faulkner ’s celebrated novel Absalom, Absalom! The book has had a major influence on...
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Friday, October 2, 2015

Huck Finn Revisited

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I first read Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in secondary school. At the time, the book hadn’t yet generated the volume o...
Monday, September 21, 2015

Praise and Lament, Part 9: The Dialectic of Praise and Lament

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Now I’d like to turn to another aspect of praise and lament: the unexpected links between these two seeming opposites. We saw in Yehuda Am...
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Praise and Lament, Part 8: Praise of Common Things in Neruda’s “Ode to Salt”

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The next poem of praise I’d like to talk about is by the great Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who lived from 1904 to 1973. Neruda is probably ...
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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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