Just Do It. Again and Again.
Go Figure: Musings from the Mind of Rob Wilstein “When I finished one book, I wouldn’t write for a while. Then I had to learn how to do it all over again. The arm goes cold; there’s a learning process…
Category: Resources for Writers
How Do You Say Hamburger in Farsi?
Some years ago I taught Communications 201 at Boston University. It was a plum job, as adjunct jobs go, because our students longed to be in the business of writing. They understood, as many students of creative writing do not, that…
Organization for the Disorganized
I am not an organized person. People often tell me they are surprised by this, and I’m surprised that they are surprised. In my previous life as an accountant, I got looks and sideways glances from many a supervisor for…
Novel Incubator: Incoming!
All of us at Dead Darlings are thrilled to meet the new crop of Novel Incubator students at this year’s Muse and the Marketplace, GrubStreet’s annual writing conference. We asked incoming student, Bonnie Waltch, to give us some insight into…
All About Grub Street’s Lit Week
Grub Street is inaugurating Lit Week, with thirty events and parties happening throughout Greater Boston this week, ahead of The Muse & the Marketplace this weekend. Dead Darlings caught up with Grub Street staff recently to learn more about Lit…
Boston Breaks for Writer’s Block: Finding Your Voice at the Museum of Fine Arts
I identify with Rembrandt in his early self-portrait, The Artist in His Studio. This is pre-socialite Rembrandt, not the velvet-robed, amply mustachioed burgher of his middle period, or the fading ghost with the watery expression of his late self-portraits. In…