May 2, 2024 Dear Writers, Thank you for signing up for Writing with Hart: News and Opportunities for Writers. I’m so glad you’re here! A shout out to two former writing students this month. The first, Ron Tinsley, just released his memoir Promise: A Story of Race, Culture and Black Potential. I got to read an earlyContinue reading “Here’s how to help your favorite writer in just five minutes…”
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Ask for What You Want, Writers.
And if you don’t get it, be creative. April 2nd, 2024 Dear Writers, Thank you for signing up for Writing with Hart: News and Opportunities for Writers. I’m so glad you’re here! Shout out to my former Writer Magazine colleague Yi Shun Lai for the publication of her debut young adult novel A Suffragist’s Guide to theContinue reading “Ask for What You Want, Writers.”
50,000 Words in 30 Days?
Here’s Why NaNoWriMo Works for Me. November 1,2023 Dear Writers, First, a shout-out to my colleague and former personal essay-writing student Diane Gottlieb, editor of the brand-new anthology Awakenings: Stories of Bodies & Consciousness in which numerous storytellers weigh in on their relationships with their bodies and minds. I’m particularly interested in Diane’s new anthologyContinue reading “50,000 Words in 30 Days?”
Are You Busy Writing Your Heart Out?
If not, maybe you need role models. May 2,2023 Dear Writers, Thank you for signing up for Writing with Hart: News and Opportunities for Writers. I’m so glad you’re here! First, a shout-out to my colleague Diane Gottlieb and her vibrant and inspiring WomanPause blog. I’m particularly fond of this interview with Seattle-based writer Priscilla Long whoContinue reading “Are You Busy Writing Your Heart Out?”
Listening is Writing, Too
Why authors need podcasts. February 2, 2023 Dear Writers, Thank you for signing up for Writing with Hart: News and Opportunities for Writers. I’m so glad you’re here! Enormous congratulations to two of my former writing students on their publications last month. Diane Gottlieb, editor of Emerge Literary Journal, had this piece published I Didn’t Have SexContinue reading “Listening is Writing, Too”
How Facebook Groups Have Helped Me with My Fiction
Don’t underestimate the power and generosity of like-minded strangers around the world! Thank you for signing up for Writing with Hart: News and Opportunities for Writers. I’m so glad you’re here! This season, I’ve been poring over boxes and boxes of my great-grandparents’ promotional photographs and posters and programs from their decades as comedians and wire-walking jugglersContinue reading “How Facebook Groups Have Helped Me with My Fiction”
It’s Okay to Take a Break from Writing…
Before you spontaneously combust. November 1, 2022 Dear Writers, Thank you for signing up for Writing with Hart: News and Opportunities for Writers. I’m so glad you’re here! Right away, a Big Confession: I didn’t send an October newsletter. Life got really messy at the end of September. I’m talking emotional trauma, PTSD, depression, anxiety, insomnia .Continue reading “It’s Okay to Take a Break from Writing…”
Impatience is the Enemy of Writers
Sometimes a story needs to sit in a drawer for a month . . . or a year. September 1, 2022 Dear Writers, Thank you for signing up for Writing with Hart: News and Opportunities for Writers. I’m so glad you’re here! I’ve been thinking a lot about the revision process this week, because I finally hadContinue reading “Impatience is the Enemy of Writers”
Generate Story Ideas Wherever You Go!
It’s simply a matter of training your brain to spot them. August 1, 2022 Dear Writers, Thank you for signing up for Writing with Hart: News and Opportunities for Writers. I’m so glad you’re here! In mid-July, I emailed a bit of bonus content about how I challenge myself to come up with a story idea wherever I goContinue reading “Generate Story Ideas Wherever You Go!”
I’m teaching a writing workshop!
“How to Write & Publish Short Personal Essays in Newspapers & Magazines” Hi, Writers! Yesterday, a veteran beekeeper friend of mine stood in the heat on top of a stranger’s roof in a full-length white suit with a netted hat, alongside my husband. The stranger and two other men stood drinking Hefeweizen below, peering upContinue reading “I’m teaching a writing workshop!”
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