Guest blogger Erica Hildebrand writes about where her story ideas come from. There's this episode of The Brady Bunch where Jan, trying to save herself some embarrassment while coping with her status as second fiddle to Marcia, invents a fake…
Author Jennifer Fleischner blogs about finding stories and being found by them. Last month a friend and I rescued a cat that had been left lying in a plastic shopping bag outside of a restaurant on Columbus Avenue in Manhattan…
Author Edythe Wise describes the challenges and rewards of writing spec scripts. After years of writing novels and short stories, I decided to try screenwriting and was pleased to learn that an unsolicited movie script, known as a “spec script,”…
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 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,…
Intern Gediyon offers advice about opening sentences. In creative writing workshops, instructors discuss setting, plot, dialogue, conflict, description, characterization and all the other things that go into a great story. All these things are important—they wouldn’t be taught if they…
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…
Volunteer Holly blogs about cauterizing life’s wounds with writing. I recently saw the movie The Words with Dennis Quad, Bradley Cooper, Zoe Saldana and Olivia Wilde. It is the kind of movie that makes you stare at the end credits…
Potomac Review Poetry Editor, Robert Giron, blogs about what he looks for in poetry submissions. I suppose when one asks me what is that I'm looking for in poetry for the Potomac Review, I might sound like other editors in…
Issue 51 contributor Johanna Droubay blogs about rhythm. A week after my daughter, Della, was born, my parents flew in from Utah with a gift: loose pages of a book, a poem that my mom had written and that friends…