Australian author Marianne de Pierres invited me to be a guest on her blog.  The result is an essay about mentoring and the kindness of strangers (apologies to Blanche Dubois).

http://www.mariannedepierres.com/guest-post-gregory-frost/
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...Or Maybe This is You and Your Agent.

Courtesy of Barbara Webb, from The Mitchell & Webb Look (no relation):

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Nancy Fulda has posted an interesting blog on writing workshops:  “Critique Groups as an Unreliable Narrator.”

It kicked loose some thoughts I’ve maintained about writing workshops for some time. I’ve been a member numerous times of the Sycamore Hill Workshop in North Carolina, and Judith Berman’s Nameless Workshop in Philadelphia (now defunct), and ( Read more... )

On the Liars Club Blog, author Jonathan Maberry asks other top thriller authors how they keep their work fresh.  The answers are ... fascinating.

http://liarsclubphilly.com/?p=1079

I had the rare pleasure this week of listening to and meeting Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Díaz at Swarthmore College. He read an appropriately brief excerpt from The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and then fielded questions about writing, to which he gave answers so good that I am appropriating them for future writing classes.  He's a ( Read more... )

First there was the Plot Synopsis plot (department of redundancy department, that).  Following immediately upon turning in my contribution to that came 2 days spent in the company of the great, mad, infamous, and brilliant T.C. Boyle, during which large quantities of beer and sake were consumed, much woodland walked in, conversations unfolded both ( Read more... )