West Philly Writers League

06/10/2020

02/28/2020

There is nothing more sustaining to long-term creative work than time and space – and these things cost money

02/22/2020

Jenny Offill is the master of novels told in sly, burnished fragments. In her latest, ‘Weather,’ she uses this small form to address the climate collapse.

02/20/2020

Useful.

02/18/2020

Bookshop.org is looking to generate revenue for independent book stores by moving sales, and affiliate links, away from Amazon and toward independent bookstores.

01/31/2020

This is a great read. But also read the comments in the original post, because the thread is very illuminating. Relevant mainly to writing, but to art as well, and how selling what you do and making a living has changed.

I liked some of the commenters who pointed out that when people were reading print magazines and books, artificial intelligence wasn’t creeping and tracking their data and no one had to worry about hackers. There are upsides and downsides to the digital publishing game these days.

“Prozac Nation” seemed to herald a boundless future for young creatives. It was actually the beginning of the end.

01/26/2020

‘The Outsiders’ changed the way kids read

01/26/2020

I hear books are making a strong comeback. There’s something about holding one in your hands, feeling the weight of it, flipping the pages, smelling the paper and ink, reading words you can touch. And there’s the quietude of a library that is comforting...

https://lithub.com/in-2019-more-americans-went-to-the-library-than-to-the-movies-yes-really/

The US film industry may have generated revenues somewhere in the region of $40 billion last year, but it seems Hollywood still has plenty of work to do if it wants to compete with that most hallow…

01/17/2020

Seventh Circle:
Using Emojis To Sum Up Feelings or Events
That Are Way Too Complicated for Emojis To Sum Up

First Circle (Limbo): Autocorrect Here wander the otherwise virtuous souls who were forced into grievous errors by autocorrect programs. They sit ...

01/09/2020

I feel so much better now!

11/18/2019

We’re not than halfway through NaNoWriMo month, and I hope you West Philly WriMos are hitting all your writing goals.

Remember, it’s better DONE than perfect. There’s plenty of time to edit, later.

https://www.nanowrimo.org

10/28/2019

Transcription
Image: four panel comic. A stick figure person and an outline of a ghost are in all four panels. In the first three panels, the ghost says "boo" and the person doesn't react. In the fourth panel, the ghost says "you should be writing" and the person is finally frightened and says "AAHHHH!"

10/18/2019

Abandon hope, all ye who enter... into writing.

09/18/2019

There's a lot of talk about how to break into the Industry, but not a lot on what to do once you're there. On living as a full-time writer amidst diminishing advances:

"Keep in mind that authors are paid for their books, but not for the full time job being an author is these days."

Read the full eye-opening article:

https://medium.com/page-count/how-to-lose-a-third-of-a-million-dollars-without-really-trying-d3c343675aca

08/27/2019

READ BOOKS, YOU!

08/09/2019

For those writers lamenting how long it takes to finish writing a book: Walden took nine years. It was published 165 years ago today. So, maybe it isn't about how long it takes to write it; maybe it's about how long it lives after you've gone...

08/04/2019

Great podcast. Enjoyable listen if you have the time to squeeze it in between writing.

My favorite kind of these is when people with tons of groceries lets someone with a few things cut ahead of them in the checkout line :)

08/04/2019

A century of conviction celebrating the freedom to read.