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An Afternoon with Autumn

By |2023-07-24T22:37:39-04:00July 25th, 2023|Categories: Non-Fiction|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

In the past year, Carteret Writers has advanced our technology tools - created a new website, produced a weekly blog and built a forum to assist writers with their technology questions. All this is thanks to our unstoppable Secretary Autumn Ware (and husband Jack). I was privileged to spend the afternoon with Autumn for some

An Afternoon Conversation with Carteret Writers President, Melissa Kelley

By |2023-07-15T15:32:11-04:00July 4th, 2023|Categories: Non-Fiction|Tags: , , , , , |

Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing my friend and Carteret Writers President Melissa Kelley. Our fearless leader has done a fantastic job of gathering our crazy ideas and implementing the not so crazy ones all while being supermom to two great kids. Let’s start with a fun question, what was your favorite book

Writer’s Block, or Overcoming the Writerly Urge to Not Write

By |2023-06-30T09:34:26-04:00June 27th, 2023|Categories: Non-Fiction|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

You’ve either read the American author William Goldman, or you’ve watched a film adaptation of one of his novels. I’d put money on it. He wrote a slew of cult classics that covered wide swaths of literary territory – from the tongue-in-cheek fairy tale adventure of The Princess Bride to the Nazi-driven conspiracy thriller Marathon

Letter Written by a Friend

By |2023-06-12T10:26:45-04:00June 13th, 2023|Categories: Non-Fiction|Tags: , , , , , |

At the Hooks and Lines workshop on creative non-fiction, we were tasked with writing imaginatively about writing itself. I was admittedly somewhat triggered by the meta-ness of this topic, no fault of the excellent presenter, but rather an echo from my turbulent academic past where rhetoric and composition people fancied themselves in opposition to literature

Eddy Says: A word on critique

By |2023-01-07T12:31:22-05:00February 7th, 2023|Categories: Non-Fiction|Tags: , , , , , , |

Congrats to all of you fiction writers getting published out there. For those of you running into walls, here’s help. In this series, pick up one-minute pointers from the Fiction Acquisitions Editor of a NC Indy press. Take what you need and leave the rest. A word on critique If you agree to critique another

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