A St. Louis Based Writing Group Sharing the Journey With Writers Everywhere
In May The Monarch Writers are focusing on the idea of Setting and World. Whatever type of writing you are doing, you need to have some kind of focus on the scene beyond the immediate plodding plot. Where is your conversation between characters SET? What is the larger world like? What is going on in... Continue Reading →
I just listened to this dramatic reading from a cast of Librivox volunteers of the play ‘Six Characters in Search of an Author’ by Luigi Pirandello. Written and first performed in 1921. I want to get down some initial thoughts and reactions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbOt5MYbOd4&feature=emb_logo Six ‘characters’ show up at a playhouse while a troupe is rehearsing... Continue Reading →
Each month The Monarch Writers, here on our .com and also on our Discord, will focus on a specific theme. This month it is CHARACTER. And specifically how to make strong characters. First, to sum up the issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr037owyBqM&t=16s So what is the issue of character? A character must have DESIRE. And a character, in... Continue Reading →
“Sadly for books in the current times there are more writers than readers, so it seems.”― B.S. Murthy “I'm not so arrogant to think I'm the only guide someone needs ... but I might be the guide that someone needs.”― Laura Anne Gilman In this piece I will gather some good advice from a few web resources on Writing... Continue Reading →
The Paris Review's “My First Time” video interview series. Writers talking about their first big work's success and what it took. Watch the trailer for the series, and fifteen installments in the video and playlist below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdiu-gYyLhM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQE7AWiFo9s&list=PLTJO2cwX5L0aAOR-h36HJuImuf2xEzu12
Here are some sources that discuss what an Essay is, from its origins, and pulling it back from being a totally cookie cutter form used by uninterested students when given an assignment to choose a thesis and defend it. An essay, literally 'an attempt', is an exploration of a subject, to do with life, that... Continue Reading →
https://www.fiyahlitmag.com/ FIYAH is a quarterly speculative fiction magazine that features stories by and about Black people of the African Diaspora. This definition is globally inclusive (Black anywhere in the world) and also applies to mixed/biracial and Afro-appended people regardless of gender identity or orientation. https://apparitionlit.com/ https://apparitionlit.com/ We publish poems and stories between 1k-5k words in... Continue Reading →
As writers, we have to consider not just the work we do on our projects -creating worlds, characters, and plots- but also must take consideration of marketing our stories to the world. So let's talk a little bit about trying to get our work published going into this new year 2021, and make a resolution... Continue Reading →
I am at a point in my work on my novel project right now where I am having a lot of ideas, and want to keep track of them. I already do multiple bulletin boards and note taking methods, from notebooks as I read to apps like Google Keep which is easy to stay on... Continue Reading →
This month the Monarch Writers are excited about the yearly November tradition of National Novel Writing Month, which several of us are participating in this year. You can get a jump on your preparation by following some of the great videos on the NaNo Youtube account and set reminders for those to watch them live.... Continue Reading →