Writing – Page 2 – Dara Rochlin Book Doctor

Where do Ideas Come From?

Ever wonder where ideas come from? Do they come while you’re daydreaming, or standing in the shower? Do you have

March 2014 TedTalk by Anne Curzan “What makes a word ‘real’. One could argue that slang words like ‘hangry,’ ‘defriend’

Some books just stay with you. They haunt you. You dream of the characters, and of what would be if

I just finished editing the second novel in the Bayou Talents series for Edward Branley, Trusted Talents. As I am

Point of View The Narrator’s personality and perspective helps shape the reader’s perspective, and how the story unfolds. The reader

Editor’s Note: This is cross-posted at Arcadia Coach, the new venture I am working on with Edward Branley. Hope to

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words

“You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what’s burning inside you, and we edit to let

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story Andrew Stanton: The Clues to a Great Story Amy Tan:

“It is not the task of a writer to ‘tell all,’ or even to decide what to leave in, but

Beta readers are people who are most likely to buy and read your book. They play an important role in

“The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. He is

Best-selling Italian novelist Umberto Eco here advises aspiring writers not to take themselves too seriously, but to go step by

Mark Twain, who read widely, was passionately interested in the problems of style; the mark of the strictest literary sensibility

What is the connection between Ogden Nash and James Thurber? Besides both being humorists, they published at The New Yorker during the