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?

Saturday, March 5, 2022

How Much Should You Know Before You Start Writing

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When a piece of writing involves research, you might ask yourself when you’re ready to start writing. You want to have enough background inf...
Friday, February 11, 2022

My Love-Hate Relationship with German Language and Culture

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“Never turn your back on a German,” my Jewish mother used to tell me growing up. She had lived through the time of the Holocaust, though she...
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Monday, January 17, 2022

Whatever Happened to Thomas Hart Benton?

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Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975) was at one time widely considered the leading painter of the United States. Today, he is virtually unknown. I...
Sunday, October 24, 2021

From Short Story Writer to Novelist: An Interview with Richard Chiappone

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Many fiction writers want to make the transition from writing short stories to novels. One writer who has done this successfully is Richard ...
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Zack Rogow
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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