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, August 13, 2018

The American Scene in Literature

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There was a lively movement in the visual arts in the United States in the mid-twentieth century called The American Scene. This c...
Sunday, August 5, 2018

Rework an Unfinished Project or Start Fresh?

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Often as a writer you’re confronted with a choice between reworking a previous project that you set aside before completion, or starting fr...
Wednesday, June 27, 2018

How Long Does It Take to Finish a Piece of Writing?

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It could take a few minutes to finish a work of literature, and it could take a few decades. It depends in part on your method of compositi...
Saturday, May 26, 2018

“Pay-to-Play” Now on the Increase in the Arts

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The marketing world has long been familiar with the “pay-to-play” style of doing business. There are many websites and publications where...
Thursday, May 17, 2018

Types of Closure, Part 4: The “Killer” Ending

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One of the most dramatic methods of creating closure in a poem is to include a last line that is a dramatic revelation, a surprising or ev...
Sunday, May 13, 2018

Types of Closure, Part 3: Using Repetition to End a Poem

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One tried and true way to create closure in a poem is to use repetition. Repeating a phrase, line, or series of lines establishes that the...
Saturday, April 28, 2018

Types of Closure in Poetry, Part 2: Ending a Poem with a Resonant Image

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For me, one of the most effective ways to achieve closure in a poem is to end with a resonant image. The temptation when you are ending...
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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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