A Network of Published and Aspiring Authors
By Barbara Neal Varma // Last month’s column about social media distractions sparked a little more conversation. Several of you relayed your own experiences with eavesdropping smartphones and other techno Continue reading
Check out what’s planned for the upcoming week: MARCH 23: O.C. Writers’ All-Genre Critique Group is an opportunity for writers to get and give feedback on participants’ work-in-progress. The program takes Continue reading
Author’s note: The following is the beginning of a work-in-progress, a retelling of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s “The Deserted House.” When he wrote of my house, Wilhelm called it “ode,” Continue reading
SEEKING CRITS AND READS is a free monthly opportunity for O.C. Writers to find critique partners, beta readers, and book reviewers, and this month, we’re switching up how we do Continue reading
By Marissa Dunham // Alan Watt is a novelist, screenplay writer, and workshop host in the L.A. area who wrote The 90-Day Novel from a series of letters he sent Continue reading
Check out what’s planned for the upcoming week: MARCH 16: O.C. Writers’ All-Genre Critique Group is an opportunity for writers to get and give feedback on participants’ work-in-progress. The program takes Continue reading
By DeAnna Cameron // Apostrophes may be small, but they can be tricky little devils, especially when it comes to the rules about forming plural and possessive words. Unlike contractions, Continue reading
By Andrea Lewis // A public speaker has the first 15 seconds of a speech to capture the audience. Would he or she spend those priceless moments on “Hello,” and Continue reading
Check out what’s planned for the upcoming week: MARCH 9: O.C. Writers’ All-Genre Critique Group is an opportunity for writers to get and give feedback on participants’ work-in-progress. The program takes Continue reading
Description: It’s July 1985, and Laura Rodriguez has had a hard time finding a programming job in Silicon Valley. She decides to take a chance on a job opening in Continue reading