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?

Thursday, June 29, 2017

Memories of the Summer of Love in San Francisco, 1967

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I started hearing about the hippies in San Francisco in the mid-1960s when I was a teenager living in New York City. I mostly knew about th...
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Monday, May 8, 2017

Nicholas Nickleby: or, There’s More to a Story Than the Plot

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Nicholas Nickleby  is a relatively early novel by Charles Dickens. The book doesn’t have a well-oiled plot, unlike many of the author’s cre...
Saturday, April 29, 2017

Is There Still Such a Thing as a "Draft" of a Piece of Writing?

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I would call a “draft” of a literary work any version that is finished in a preliminary way. Usually, writers create multiple drafts of a w...
Saturday, April 1, 2017

Can A Writer Have Too Many Talents and Interests?

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Many people in the arts have numerous talents and interests. In addition to writing, you might enjoy quilting, or playing an instrument, or...
Sunday, March 19, 2017

Writers and Collaboration, Part 4: Choosing Your Collaborators

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A key factor in a writer working successfully with other artists is for the author to select good collaborators. To do that, you have to us...
Saturday, March 11, 2017

Steve Bannon on the Culture and Reason for Being of the United States—A Different View

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In his talk to the Conservative Political Action Committeein National Harbor, Maryland, on February 23, 2017,  former White House chief str...
Saturday, March 4, 2017

Linda Tillery on How to Clap and What It Means for Writers

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A few years ago I took a workshop at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco with singer and arranger Linda Tillery . Li...
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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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