Inspiration strikes randomly. Can you plan to to be inspired? Probably not, but you can certainly plant the seeds for it by getting out and...

This just in from Skylight Book s: PEN Center USA presents: THE PALE KING: Monologues from the unfinished novel by David Foster Wallace  ...

Where else can you find something this unique? On Saturday, March 26, 2011, Heritage Square Museum’s annual Vintage Fashion Show and Tea wil...

A friend who moved to Los Angeles from back east once told me that, "Los Angeles is a great town to be broke in." I have to agree....

A. How can we not love someone who uses an interrobang as their logo? B. Fake anything often rules. Hello... Fake fur. Fake purebreds (...

Citizen Kane is on many people's list of Top 10 movies, and even if it's not on yours, chances are good that you've seen it, an...

Take a quick peek at this BBC News article about a new fiction book that manipulates the use of vowels. Entitled "Euonia", the o...

Whether you suffer from ADD (don't we all on some level?) or can concentrate for hours, or if you just need a break from all that pre-Ha...

Are you trying to decide if the title of your novel will hook potential readers? The folks at Lulu.com commissioned a research team to analy...

This one looks like too much fun! It's the Winning Writers 8th Annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest . All you need to do is submit ...

If you enjoy being surrounded by hundreds of fellow-writers who are interested in learning more about perfecting their craft, this Sunday...

Steve Lopez of the LA Times is inviting all LA Times readers to collaborate with him on a novel! His column in next Sunday's paper (Marc...

If you aren't familiar with Marvin Bell (and I wasn't until I came across this gem!), his Thirty-two Statements About Writing Poetry...

It's not often that a punctuation mark makes headlines in the New York Times . How thrilling that not only was this particular semicolon...

All writers know the power of words -- to transform, to inspire, to change a life. For writers with some extra time and looking to have a r...

Sometimes it's hard to find a starting point to give focus to what we want to write. We feel like writing but don't know where to be...

The Skirball Cultural Center , perched on Mulholland and Sepulveda, almost next to the Getty, is full of unexpected and great activities, le...

Los Angeles is a great city for writers. From Raymond Chandler to Asphalt Jungle, from Joan Didion to LA Story, the city has featured promin...

This just in from TONGUE and GROOVE- Readings: TONGUE and GROOVE- Readingsat the Hotel Cafe, Sunday January 27th- 6:00 to 7:30pm We're b...

This handy-dandy website, RhymeZone , that modestly bills itself as a mere rhyming dictionary, is really a doorway to sooooo much more!!! He...