creative writing

Learning from Critique Groups

By |2024-10-25T18:01:08-04:00October 25th, 2024|Categories: Contest Invitation|Tags: , , , |

When I stood to read my assignment to my creative writing classmates, it felt edgy and a little bit ill-advised. I had never shared my writing with anyone, much less dared to read it aloud to a group of people I had just met. The laryngitis that remained after a bout of the Omicron virus

Motivation for the Writer

By |2024-09-18T20:55:28-04:00September 18th, 2024|Categories: Contest Invitation|Tags: , , , |

I host a creative writing class at the New Bern Library the second Tuesday of each month. I started in September 2023 with a discussion about motivation. So, I’ll blog about that since I’m always in need of motivation to write (and other things, too). I found motivation to be in two parts. One is

Submit your local ghost story to Winter Hauntings!

By |2024-09-08T14:12:35-04:00September 6th, 2024|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , |

Last year, I launched EPIC Carteret to experiment in a new mode of storytelling – the podcast. It’s been fun to learn some of the tricks of the trade – like “nonlinear, narrative interspersion,” a way of breaking up a story to add layers and depth and to create a more dynamic listening experience. In

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