A successful Hollywood writer, meets an unconventional protagonist and writes a new “chapter” for his career.
The Carny Contessa
Tag: writer
On “Writing What You Know” When You Can’t Write About Yourself
“Write what you know” is common writing advice. But how do we make this mean something and make it a part of our own writing?
Jean Paul
One of literature’s great eccentrics, Jean Paul was popular in Germany in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
Almost End of a Line
This poem reflects my love of mythology, teaching and learning, and above all of the ways in which words collide.
On Poetics (and matters of similar tedium)
A look at the current literary scene as someone sees it (mainly).
Something Remains
When inspiration is gone something remains, writing.
600°
We’ve heard about witches, books, and historical monuments being burned to ash, but what happens when it becomes writers instead?
Procrastination
A short personal essay on vulnerability and the writing process.
Who Killed Publishing
A literary agent struggles with how to reject a worthy author and wonders how the industry got to the point where this is the norm.
A review of Heather McQuillan’s Where Oceans Meet
Where Oceans Meet is a book of flash fiction stories that read like poetry.
Author Eva Wong Nava
I would like to introduce Eva Wong Nava, a very talented writer, contributor to Literary Heist, and novelist.
Does Your Horse Have A Saddle?
Why Writing Groups Work
Neat
This poem reflects on the life of a writer.
Nick Hornby: On using Spotify for fuel, Jigsaws, and more
Nick Hornby, best known for his memoir Fever Pitch and his novels High Fidelity and About a Boy, all of which were adapted into feature films.
Should an artist be medicated?
A discussion of whether an artist should be medicated or not.
Who Owns the Dropper Owns the Fix
The following feature is an opinion piece on one of modern literature’s most experimental and controversial of writers, William Burroughs.