League of Vermont Writers Member
I am proud today to have been accepted as a member of the League of Vermont Writers. I look forward to attending their upcoming conference and meeting others as passionate about the craft as I.
writing
The rules of writing are nothing like the rules of real life.
By Annalisa Parent www.annalisaparent.com The rules of writing are nothing like the rules of real life. In real life we censor ourselves, leave out the gory or embarrassing or overly personal details of the stories we tell about our daily lives. In writing, we have to be so brutally honest about the human emotional reality … [Read more…]
Becoming a Singles Warehouse Expert
I am really excited that after yesterday’s success of my first guest blog post with Singles Warehouse (London) that they have asked me to have a regular feature on their site. Didn’t get a chance to read the article? Click this photo:
Launching an author platform can be hard work!
See my thoughts on organic hits on facebook pages from a recent interview with lonelybrand.com. (Read the full article here.) What tips do you have for promoting your work?
Feedback from my memoir writing workshop
Sadly, the four-week memoir writing workshop I offered at a continuing education program came to a close last evening. The participants and I were having such a great time together, they asked to extend the class another four weeks! It was an honor to be a part of a great group of people and to hear their writing … [Read more…]
Writing for Thread Magazine
I am so excited to have teamed up with Zach Despart at Thread Magazine. I will be covering the Burlington Writers’ Workshop “The Best of the Burlington Writers Workshop 2014” Book Launch Party this Friday for publication next week.
The Importance of Musicality in Prose
By Annalisa Parent www.annalisaparent.com In one of the chapters of my life, I lived in Paris. My French boyfriend, like most twenty-year-old men, was an aspiring rock musician. I recall one day working with him on song writing; I was encouraging him to write the music to sound like the feeling of the lyrics he’d written. … [Read more…]
Creative Non Fiction Workshop May 20
Come on out for this Creative Nonfiction Workshop I’ll be offering through the Burlington Writers’ Workshop. Sign Up in advance; space limited.
The Difficulty of Finding Good Writing prompts
I teach a memoir class once a week in a continuing education program. Each week I give the participants a prompt. Oftentimes they will bring back what they’ve written over the week in response to the prompt. Some are better than others; here is one that yielded a lot of good writing and discussion. Where … [Read more…]
Recognition from a fellow author
Today is a big day! My article on soul mates was featured by TheNeeds.com. And my article “Digging yourself out of a writing slump” was featured by Author Katherine Lowry Logan on her website. http://www.katherinelowrylogan.com/ I am so excited to have my writing “discovered” and featured. Thank you, fellow writers!
Another article featured on a dating site.
I just received a notification that TheNeeds.com is featuring my series on soul mates! Thank you, TheNeeds.com
Annalisa Parent in “The Odd Couple Goes Dancing”
I wrote and produced sketches as the Copy Producer for Late Night Saturday. Here is the Odd Couple doing something stupid, when they go to a friend’s wedding. Watch what happens next… (Click the picture to view video…)
Digging yourself out of a writing slump
Unslumping yourself by just daring to write something Some days I feel inspirationless—or worse, I feel discouraged—that my writing isn’t good enough, or I haven’t got anything to say, or that no one wants to read what I write. And, well, that feels awful. But I’ve found that the way through it is writing. It’s … [Read more…]
Full Confession: Writing Breaks
Ok, full confession time. There’s only so long I can sit with my butt attached to that chair writing. So every 15 minutes or so, I give myself a dance break. I put on one song, loud!, and dance like a fool around my office. Wow, that’s embarrassing! Umm, yeah, that is me in the photo! … [Read more…]
Sitting at the feet of those who wrote before us
One of the great things about living in a digital world is the ability to communicate with a wide variety of people. I had the great honor of a recent online conversation with Alexander McCall Smith author of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, The Sunday Philosophy Club, and the 44 Scotland Street series. He is … [Read more…]
A writer’s battle against the -tions: procrastination and distraction
Writers hate a lot of –tion words–particularly procrastination and distraction. Procrastination isn’t my worst enemy; well, at least not as formidable a foe as distraction. Distraction is a shape-shifter: it takes many forms. Mostly, it takes the form of something that ends with .com, and is accompanied by its favorite –tion travel pal: justification. Chapter … [Read more…]
Featured on Francois Clemmons’ Studio 104
While I was a book reviewer and morning DJ on WFAD, Francois Clemmons (Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood) featured me on his program Studio 104.
The day you start to see your vision coming together
I’ve been working on getting my writing out there in front of the right people for a while. Today I got the email every author dreams of: “I’d absolutely love to have you write an article for our site , exposing our customers and readers to you and your brand.” Of course, I am going … [Read more…]
Writing, Writing, Writing. And then some more writing.
In my other (non-writing) life, I am a photographer. In the early years of my training, a wise, experienced photographer said “The key to my success is taking lots of pictures, because you generally throw away at least half,” or something like that. And it is true, in photography, that photos are rejected because someone … [Read more…]
Poets I admire
William Carlos Williams is one of my favorite poets. I appreciate his ability to convey sophisticated ideas in so few words. Here is a poem I wrote for fun, modeled after Williams’ “This is Just to Say.” I wrote this after a month-long research trip in France, where the food was decadent and delicious, and … [Read more…]