Watha T. Daniel/Shaw Library 'Writer's Club Wednesdays'

12/30/2013

Good links for aspiring writers!!

ALA Library's List: Tips for Aspiring Writers and Authors - List of resources offering advice to book writers and authors wanting to get published.

12/28/2013

“In The Book of Secrets, Osho, the great teacher/philosopher, said something regarding creativity and spirituality that I have always felt could help writers, if I could just find the right forum to make it accessible. Though the exact quotation is about meditation, I have paraphrased the wisdom to make it applicable to writers. You see, we have this view in life that everything can be learned, that everything is about finding knowledge and then we will be happy. While this may be true for some things such as science and medicine, it is not true for art and creativity. These things you must experience for yourself. You must have a direct connection to the development of thing, the creation of it. You cannot sit at the feet of Shakespeare or Maya Angelou and walk away an author.

Likewise, you cannot read a book on writing and then- “poof!”- become an author (though books are great guides). No. You must experience the act of writing to be an author. You must experience things for yourself. The only way you can do this is to write, from beginning to end, a story. And then do it again and again and again. Then you will have the experience; then you will be an author. But you have to be willing to participate in the experience. You must face your blocks, develop a worthy goal, and stick to it with checklists to keep you on track.”
– Victoria Lynn Schmidt, Ph.D.

12/27/2013

Hope to see you all in January!!! :-D