The Place For My Writers Notes

Original posting 26 May 2009

Writers' Digest, October 2004, pages 26 to 33, has a collection of short "nuggets of wisdom" related to getting published. Maria Schneider is the author of the compilation. Take a deep breath, and here we go:

"I think it's so important to write about the things you know and care deeply about. Sometimes we overlook the worlds we know intimately, thinking others won't be interested in them. But those are the worlds we can evoke in stunning detail in such a way that we pull the reader in." Jane Kurtz

Hoho! You mean that the people I know, the place I grew up, the odds and ends that are closest to me are the ones that I can tell so much about that no one else can? Kind of like no one else knows your belly button lint like you do? Hum, that may not be the best metaphor.

Take a moment. What things do you know and care deeply about? What things make you jump into web conversations and take positions? What stories do you tell when you get angry or upset? What makes you get angry or upset? Make a list of some of those irritating points... and then,

WRITE!