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Westport Writers' Workshop - BLOG
Our blog is home to thoughts from our instructors, staff, and guest bloggers on everything from favorite books to how to navigate the publishing process. While you are here, be sure to check out our current programming. Every Genre. Every Level.
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Westport Writers' Workshop
Mar 202 min read
Five Questions with Blake Schnirring about Blake's Books!
Our Executive Director, Blake Schnirring, writes a monthly book review for our weekly newsletter, the Writers’ Weekly called Blake’s...
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Westport Writers' Workshop
Feb 62 min read
Celebrating our 20th: An Interview with long-time fiction instructor, Chris Belden
1.) How long have you been teaching with WWW and what was your first workshop? My memory is ominously spotty, but I think I started at...
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Westport Writers' Workshop
Jan 82 min read
From Freewrite to Final Draft
In our workshops, we discuss: freewriting, the craft of writing, revising/editing, and how and where to submit, but usually not at once!...
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Westport Writers' Workshop
Nov 29, 20231 min read
What is (a) Hybrid?
Is it part fiction writer and part poet? Is it part screenwriter and party memoirist? Or is it an AI-generated robot who can write all...
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Westport Writers' Workshop
Oct 17, 20231 min read
Five Questions with our new Instructor, Cara Wall
Meet our new instructor, Cara Wall. What's your favorite book and why? I like long, character driven novels I can sink into, like The...
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Westport Writers' Workshop
Oct 13, 20234 min read
Beware the Information Dump
By Douglas Moser Information dumps happen to the best of us. Hell, sometimes they’re even useful, and warranted. Take your typical TV...
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Westport Writers' Workshop
Oct 12, 20232 min read
Writing Lessons from Clown School
By Lauren LoGiudice For the last two summers I traveled to France to stand on a classroom stage and have a Frenchman with a drum tell me...
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Westport Writers' Workshop
Sep 6, 20232 min read
How to Give Feedback in Workshop
Hi, this is Jessie McEntee. I've worked at WWW as an instructor for almost eight years. I'm sometimes asked for tips on giving great...
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Westport Writers' Workshop
Jul 13, 20235 min read
Notes on dialogue: It’s not just what you say
Notes on dialogue: It’s not just what you say by Douglas Moser
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Westport Writers' Workshop
Jul 7, 20233 min read
Q&A with Rebecca Stay: Showrunner/Creator Sheryl J. Anderson
Sheryl J. Anderson is the Showrunner on the hit Netflix series, Sweet Magnolias, which is releasing season 3 this month. The streamer...
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Westport Writers' Workshop
Jun 22, 20233 min read
Catching Up With Allison Dickens
Former Penguin and Random House Senior Editor Allison Dickens has taught a slew of WWW classes, from generative workshops in which...
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Westport Writers' Workshop
Jun 1, 20235 min read
Marine Assaiante and the Fundamentals of Creating a Web Series
Just days after delivering her second child, Marine Assaiante was back at the computer, determined to finish writing her half-hour pilot....
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Westport Writers' Workshop
May 9, 20235 min read
Q&A with Rebecca Stay
I read somewhere that wisdom = knowledge applied, so for me there was no one better than the honorable showrunner, Donald Todd to talk to...
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Westport Writers' Workshop
May 3, 20231 min read
Five Questions with Poetry Instructor, Cheryl Wilder
1.) When did you know you wanted to be a writer? When Mr. Langford, my high school English teacher, pulled me aside a month before I...
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Westport Writers' Workshop
May 2, 20232 min read
Five Questions with Intro. To Memoir Instructor, Amy Shearn
1.) When did you know you wanted to be a writer? I really always wanted to be a writer! I was always a big reader and writing felt like a...
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Westport Writers' Workshop
May 1, 20232 min read
Five Questions with Lisa Cloherty, Our New Writing For Young Kids Instructor!
1.) When did you know you wanted to be a writer? I've loved writing all of my life. While my friends were out playing soccer or doing...
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Westport Writers' Workshop
Apr 25, 20231 min read
Meet Courtney Maum, Our Pitch & Publish Keynote Speaker
Author of five books, including the game changing publishing guide BEFORE AND AFTER THE BOOK DEAL and the memoir, THE YEAR OF THE HORSES,...
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Westport Writers' Workshop
Mar 27, 20232 min read
Five Questions with Diane Parrish
"I am so grateful for the opportunity the conference provided me and am still pinching myself on a daily basis." -Diane Parrish, 2022...
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Westport Writers' Workshop
Mar 13, 20232 min read
What is Flash?
Flash is prose that is typically 1,000 words or less. The craft of writing flash shares many techniques with writing poetry, including a...
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