If you’ve never read Rebecca or haven’t read it lately, you may want to read it for pure pleasure and as a study in the portrayals of a main character the reader never sees except through the eyes of others. Penned by English author Daphne du Maurier and published in 1938, Rebecca was a bestseller […]
On Reading For Writers
By Elizabeth Kalfayan, WWW Summer intern How did you decide you wanted to write more often and become a writer? I am an English major, and when I am asked why I chose it, most of the time I answer with the most cliché response possible; because I really enjoy reading and writing and want […]
Writing Prompts 5/26 – 5/29
5/26 – From Poets & Writers The Time is Now series: Write a short story that launches with the opening of floodgates—something that has been restrained or kept in containment which now bursts free. What confluence of forces had to combine to create the circumstances that would allow this to happen? Focus on the impact […]
Five Questions with Mike Belanger
1.) When did you know you wanted to be a writer? I wish I could point to a moment: Back in high school, furiously reading Slaughterhouse-Five or Catch-22, some classic of the American canon that just made me need to write. Or maybe college, needing to document my first bitter taste of heartbreak on a […]