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In this edition of The Writer's Journey, CWG Online Editor-in-Chief Sheila Wright is pleased to interview long-time CWG member and author, Alfred Walker!
If you didn't have anything to say, you wouldn't even think about writing, but you do have something to say, and you know it. Should you keep moving forward?
The Boulder Book Store is as unique as the community itself. That local identity is something to keep in mind if you ask the store to carry your book.
Computers make drafting, formatting, and saving a snap–but don’t forget the trusty pencil-to-paper method of recording our thoughts and words.
Would you like to have your picture book professionally edited for free? Our dear friend and award-winning author Clara Gillow Clark is donating her services to one lucky CWG Online reader!
Have you ever considered the difference between a coffee’s “fragrance” and its “aroma?”
In so many other areas of our lives, we are expected to complete tasks and are judged upon the end result. So we begin to treat the creative process the same way––as a task. But each one of our creative expressions acts like a mirror that gives us valuable insight into who we are and where we are on our journey.
As writers, we write because we have a story we want to share. But we also write because we want young people to read our work and enjoy it. We should stop and ask ourselves, “What do teens want to read?”
One of The Highlights Foundation's signature events, Summer Camp at The Barn–"a week of learning, networking, creating and relaxing"–is now open for registration at $200 off!
Today's kids live in a more stressful environment than ever–partially due to the competitive academic environment they face. But did you know that one of the cornerstones of a child's education–reading–can help children become better at managing stress?
At our core, we have never left childhood behind. It's a part of ourselves we can still connect with to “tune in and bring forth” compelling children’s stories.
Whoever wrote Shakespeare's plays certainly did knock the spots out of any literature since Cervantes and, to my mind, knocked the spots out of any literature right up to the day Mark Twain arrived on the scene.
