Quantcast
Channel: Blogging and Writing – Mark Kaplowitz
Browsing all 6 articles
Browse latest View live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

How I Started Blogging

My first blog was created in the fall of 2008.  America was in the midst of a Presidential election, and debate was fierce.  While showering I came up with a few ideas on how to solve the financial...

View Article



Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

From Seditionist to Blogger

In high school I authored and distributed an underground newspaper.  I believe this was a step towards becoming a blogger. My friend Darren and I had the idea of starting a literary magazine, but we...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Remember Life Before Memory Sticks: Digesting the Writer’s Digest Conference...

This past weekend I attended the Writer’s Digest Conference at the Sheraton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan.  It just so happened that there was another Sheraton Hotel directly across the street.  Two...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Remember When Genre Was Genre: Digesting the Writer’s Digest Conference 2012...

All of the speakers at the Writer’s Digest Conference that I attended last weekend were excellent.  One of them who stands out in my mind is Donald Maass, who spoke about writing for the 21st Century....

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Remember When Pitches Were Just For Movies: Digesting the Writer’s Digest...

After Donald Maass spoke about how to intensify novels and convinced everyone that the novels they came to New York to pitch needed to be rewritten from scratch, we were treated to the last speaker of...

View Article


Remember When People Proofread?

Today I have not written a post.  Instead, I have posted a graphic from Grammarly in honor of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), the annual contest where you complete a 50,000 word novel...

View Article
Browsing all 6 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images