This week I’m excited to welcome Ana Manwaring as a guest here at Write On! Besides writing a column for the Petaluma Post for six+ years, thrillers set in Mexico and poetry, Ana teaches Creative and Autobiographical Writing in the Napa Valley…
And now, dear reader, back to our brief and breathless look at the life of Jack London, who mowed down every obstacle in his way — illegitimate birth, wacky mother, abandoning bio-dad, just for starters — to become a literary…
Back to London (Jack London, that is) next week, faithful readers. This week, it’s all about Shorts. Short stories, that is, read aloud. A simple and increasingly rare pleasure. Lucky Penny Productions put out a call to local authors for brief…
If the dictionary had an entry for the term “bigger than life”, right next to it would be a picture of Jack London. Here was a soul so outsized, so fiercely romantic, and so exuberantly committed to extracting every last…
This is the view I see when I walk the dog. Welcome to the ‘hood. Would this landscape fuel your creativity? Disengage your writer’s block? Inspire your imagination to romp freely? Send story-telling shivers up and down your spine? It…