by Admin | Jan 20, 2014 | For Writers, News, News + Events
From an interesting article about Finnish author Antti Tuomainen: One of the best pieces of writing advice I heard is from Lawrence Block an American crime novelist is “write what you want and don’t expect anything”. I think it’s really good advice. Click here to...
by Admin | Jan 6, 2014 | Books, For Writers, News, Nonfiction
In the 1980s, Lawrence Block developed an interactional seminar that adapted elements of the human potential movement specifically for writers. For several years he and his wife, Lynne, traveled the country conducting seminars that focused on the inner game of...
by LB | Dec 1, 2013 | For Writers
Every writer finds the question “Where do you get your ideas?”annoying, even insulting in its presupposition that the idea’s all there is to it. Shakespeare got most of HIS ideas from other writers; do you think it was the idea of it that enabled him...
by LB | Nov 26, 2013 | For Writers, The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons
I think I ought to get David Trevor to write all my newsletters. Yesterday morning an appeal from an Australian reader sent him searching for a long-lost box of Write For Your Life, the sole survivors from 1986. Around noon I sent out a newsletter he’d written,...
by LB | Oct 30, 2013 | For Writers
Cagy old trend-spotter that I am, I’ve spotted a trend over the past month or two. Affirmations for Writers, a tape I made way back when cassettes were the Next Big Thing, and now available exclusively in LB’s eBay Bookstore as an MP3 download, has been...
by LB | Jun 19, 2013 | Anthologies, Bernie Rhodenbarr, For Writers, Keller, Newsletter, Short Stories
Here’s a newsletter that went out earlier today to subscribers: Oh dear. Just the other day I got an email from a fellow who wanted to be restored to the newsletter list. I checked, and he was never off it. But it’s been so long between installments that I...
