Just Do It. Again and Again.
Go Figure: Musings from the Mind of Rob Wilstein “When I finished one book, I wouldn’t write for a while. Then I had to learn how to do it all over again. The arm goes cold; there’s a learning process…
Category: The Writing Life
How Do You Say Hamburger in Farsi?
Some years ago I taught Communications 201 at Boston University. It was a plum job, as adjunct jobs go, because our students longed to be in the business of writing. They understood, as many students of creative writing do not, that…
An Interview With Kate Racculia, Author of Bellweather Rhapsody
Kate Racculia is the author of This Must Be the Place, and the forthcoming Bellweather Rhapsody, which hits the bookstore shelves on May 13th. Kate talked to Dead Darlings about the inspiration for her new novel, how writing and launching…
Novel Incubator: Incoming!
All of us at Dead Darlings are thrilled to meet the new crop of Novel Incubator students at this year’s Muse and the Marketplace, GrubStreet’s annual writing conference. We asked incoming student, Bonnie Waltch, to give us some insight into…
My Marathons
On April 15th 2013, I was on my couch with an icepack against my face recovering from dental surgery. Having run the Boston Marathon in 2009 and 2010, I had scheduled the surgery that day so that I wouldn’t be…
Best Coffee Cluster in the Greater Boston Area
Back in February I promised to spill the beans on my favorite coffee clusters and where to find them. But if you’ve forgotten what the heck a coffee cluster is, refresh your memory with the Top Ten Reasons Coffee Clusters…