Guest host Ricardo Amigo begins a new series on text management tools for writers.
This is our review of Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson, editor in chief of Wired.
"Three young men are visited by ghosts of Halloween past." Rated PG for subject matter (drinking, ghosts).
"A sniper mistakenly kills two boys in Iraq and their ghosts seek revenge." Rated PG for language, violence, and gore.
Nelson Johnson spent two decades researching his history of Atlantic City. Please join us as he explains how he worked and what kept him going for so long.
Memoir has become hugely popular in the last few years. In this episode of The Writing Show, guest host Alanna Klapp and author Deanna R. Adams explore some of the issues involved in this most personal form of writing.
Brigitte A. Thompson discusses how writers who pay taxes in the U.S. can organize their financial lives and perhaps save money in the process.
In this rather unusual episode of The Writing Show, classics scholar Aaron Horton discusses the most influential of the ancient Greek novels: Aethiopica by Heliodorus, which influenced Shakespeare and Cervantes, among others.
Screenwriting guru Blake Snyder died on August 4th. This is our tribute to him.
Please join us as Matt talks about writing graphic novels and his cross-genre story that combines werewolves and the American west.
David Rothman is one of the world's foremost authorities on ebooks. Please join us as he discusses issues of importance to authors, publishers, and consumers.
Writing Show guest host Alanna Klapp discusses writing fiction with author Thrity Umrigar.
David Rothman investigated corruption in the U.S. government 30 years ago, but it took that long for his fictionalized version of events and people to be published. Please join us as David explains how and why he translated fact into fiction and why it took that long to do so.
Join us for this inspiring show in which three writers explain how writing has changed their lives.
Technical writer/podcaster Alistair Christie describes what it's like to be a technical writer: what tech writers do, who's best suited to be one, what you need to know, and how to get into the field.
Writing Show host Paula B. explains how to write when you don't have time. Then listener Dharma Kelleher reviews the iPhone/iTouch app WordTwiddle.
This week's guest didn't mean for his book to be so timely: it just turned out that way. Even if you're not a teacher, his common-sense financial tips are well worth a look.