Whenever I ask why someone writes, I get a different yet similar answer. The details change, but the essence is always that there's a story in the writer's head struggling to be heard. Whether the story is based on fact or springs entirely from imagination, the characters are real, and they have loud voices. The only way to stop the noise is to put the words on paper. I … [Read more...] about What Drives You To Write? by Lani Longshore
Why Am I Here and What Am I Supposed to Be Doing? by Lani Longshore
Although "Back-to-School" means nothing to my schedule and budget now, I still think of the end of summer as a new beginning. Creating new schedules when vacation has disrupted the old one is a good time to re-examine what I do. A book I read this summer, Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger, encouraged me to ask why I am doing what I think I should do. The book … [Read more...] about Why Am I Here and What Am I Supposed to Be Doing? by Lani Longshore
December 17, 2016: Get Inside Your Reader’s Brain: The neuroscience of how to make readers laugh and cry
Join us Saturday, December 17, 2016, at 2:00 p.m. at the Four Points by Sheraton, 5115 Hopyard Road, Pleasanton, as Ransom Stephens, Ph.D. presents “Get Inside Your Reader’s Brain: The neuroscience of how to make readers laugh and cry.” Neuroscience is like looking under the hood to see how It works. When you know how readers process your writing, you can figure out what … [Read more...] about December 17, 2016: Get Inside Your Reader’s Brain: The neuroscience of how to make readers laugh and cry
In Praise of Talking to Yourself by Lani Longshore
The other day my husband was trying to remember to plug in his electric car. In the morning, he asked me not to let him forget to do that later in the day. In the afternoon, he told me he had written himself a note reminding him to charge the car. In the early evening, he told me he was going to include plugging the car into the charging station in the nightly … [Read more...] about In Praise of Talking to Yourself by Lani Longshore
Member Successes
LaDonna Fehlberg submitted poems to the 2016 Alameda County Fair. Four were juried into the fine arts exhibition: "Seasons," "Summer Day," "In our Younger Years," a photo poem, and "The Lost Years," a photo poem. "Summer Day" received a Silver cash award. Camille DeFer Thompson’s piece, “My Love Affair with the French Language,” was featured July 20 on Midlife … [Read more...] about Member Successes
