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, October 12, 2023

Composing the Emotional Flow of a Performance or Reading

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What Is Emotional Flow?  For a play, opera, or literary reading, the emotional flow is the pathway of moods that the audience experiences as...
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Writing Historical Biography: An Interview with Rebecca Boggs Roberts

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This post is an interview with Rebecca Boggs Roberts , author of the eye-opening and highly enjoyable biography, Untold Power: The Fascinati...
Saturday, July 22, 2023

How to Move on to the Next Creative Project

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Whether you are a writer or you’re involved in another art, it can be difficult to make the transition from one major project to another. Th...
Friday, June 23, 2023

Killing Dumbledore: Why main characters have to resolve plots

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I couldn’t believe it when J.K. Rowling killed off the greatest wizard, Albus Dumbledore , at the end of book six, Harry Potter and the Hal...
Sunday, June 11, 2023

Why Ron DeSantis Is Wrong about Western Civilization

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In a January 2023 press release , Florida Governor Ron DeSantis called for legislation to “ensure Florida’s public universities and colleges...
Sunday, April 9, 2023

Writing Poems from Childhood Memories: An Interview with Jeanne Wagner

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This post is an interview with the writer Jeanne Wagner , who has created many powerful poems based on childhood memories. Jeanne Wagner Jea...
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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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