Elizabeth StarkinWriters on WritingEfficiency: What the Writer Needs to KnowToward the end of January I taught a class called Putting It All Together. Here’s why: People come into my craft classes and write in…Feb 19, 20162Feb 19, 20162
Elizabeth StarkinWriters on WritingHoarding: Lessons for WritersI’ve been thinking about “enough.” In our evolving bodies — many thousands of years behind the actual circumstances of our lives — we have…Jan 28, 20162Jan 28, 20162
Elizabeth StarkLower the StakesI realized when my partner and I were making a short film recently that there is something wonderful, in life if not in story, about low…Dec 13, 20151Dec 13, 20151
Elizabeth StarkNot Enough Books!I have active library cards in four counties. Last summer, if you’d wandered into the Sebastopol Branch of the Sonoma County Library, you…Dec 10, 2015Dec 10, 2015
Elizabeth StarkinWriters on WritingWrite Anyway“Mom, do you think in my life span we’ll ever meet an alien?” It’s early morning, the time when I write and then meditate, which probably…Dec 4, 2015Dec 4, 2015