With poet Elizabeth Switaj’s post below, the Potomac Review Blog begins a new series on the infinitely varied ways poets perceive and present their work. Each month, a poet will share a sample of her (or his) work in a…
Guest blogger Craig Hegemann writes about his journey down the writer’s path. I was new to this writer’s group, so the first order of business was introductions and some casual conversation. We then settled in to review each other’s pieces.…
Author Marsheila Rockwell blogs about writing tie-in fiction. You’ve seen them in the bookstores and supermarkets. Movie novelizations, or books based on your favorite TV show (or, maybe, if you’re of a geekier bent, based on your favorite game). You…
Guest blogger Joanie DiMartino writes about her NaPoWriMo results six months later. Here’s a link to her blog from April 2012. So “The Bed Bug Diaries” manuscript continues, line by line, word by word, syllable by syllable, forming into its…
Guest blogger Jacques Rancourt writes about his NaPoWriMo results six months later. Here’s a link to his blog from April 2012. The best part of the poem-a-day challenge is by the end having a large stack of new work, a…
Guest blogger Marla Deschenes writes about her NaPoWriMo results six months later. Here’s a link to her blog from April 2012. My poems that were written for NaPoWriMo mock me from a folder on my computer’s desktop where they have…
Guest blogger Uche Ogbuji writes about some longer-term results of his NaPoWriMo experience. Here’s a link to his blog from April 2012. Though I only got up to about twenty new poems in April, that counts as extremely productive for…
Guest blogger Derek Furr writes about hope, dessert and ambiguous rejection letters. Let me begin with a familiar tale of rejection. I pulled into my driveway at the end of the day, entered the back door and greeted my family…
Guest blogger Shannon Lawrence writes about why she does NaNoWriMo. #nanowrimo As the leaves turn and begin to fall, writers everywhere are doing more than busting out the rakes. Autumn means it’s time for NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month,…
Guest blogger Erin M. Hartshorn writes about her NaNoWriMo experiences and her hope for the month of November. I first did NaNoWriMo in 2003, about the time when I first decided I was actually going to pursue writing. My goal…