The Self-Made Writer

How to start? This isn’t a question of motivation or of how to get ideas on the page, though these are important considerations. It’s a matt...

“There is in you what’s beyond you.” Paul Valery As a self-doubting teen (weren’t we all that, once?), I developed a passion for politic...

“I have wanted you to see out of my eyes so many times.”   ―   Elizabeth Berg ,   The Pull Of The Moon Point of view, perspective, and...

“It is not the mountains that we conquer, but ourselves.” ~ Sir  Edmond  Hillary Steve Almond  says it simply: in any narrative, we ca...

Just in time for All Hallows Eve, a big full moon rose over the mountains last night, a reminder that there’s no better time to ta...

With the words you’re reading here, the 49 Writers blog has featured a whopping 1281 posts. Figure an average of 600 words per post, and th...

I used to secretly cringe whenever I heard the commandment of Henry James , that as a writer I must be “one upon whom nothing is lost."...