writing

  • Books to Help You Start (and Finish!) Writing Your Novel

    Books to Help You Start (and Finish!) Writing Your Novel

    Have you always wanted to write a novel? Or are you feeling stuck with your current draft? Wherever you are in your writing project, the library carries many books that can help with inspiration and next steps. Here are some that I have found to be especially useful: For Getting Inspired: 1,000 Words by Jami… Continue reading

  • Writers’ Room Interview: Amontaine Aurore

    Welcome back to our Writers’ Room interview series! Today we’re talking with Amontaine Aurore, a member of the 2023 Seattle Writers’ Room cohort. The Writers’ Room, located on Level 9 of the Central Library, offers a space for writers to work on their projects and access Library resources. Use of the room is through an… Continue reading

  • Writers’ Room Interview: Cara Diaconoff

    Welcome back to our Writers’ Room interview series! Today we’re talking with Cara Diaconoff, a member of the 2023 Seattle Writers’ Room cohort. The Writers’ Room, located on Level 9 of the Central Library, offers a space for writers to work on their projects and access Library resources. Use of the room is through an… Continue reading

  • Writers’ Room Interview: Arendse Lund

    Welcome back to our Writers’ Room interview series! Today we’re talking with Arendse Lund, a member of the 2023 Seattle Writers’ Room cohort. The Writers’ Room, located on Level 9 of the Central Library, offers a space for writers to work on their projects and access Library resources. Use of the room is through an… Continue reading

  • Writers’ Room Interview: Morgan Richter

    Have you heard of the Eulalie and Carlo Scandiuzzi Writers’ Room at the Central Library? The Writers’ Room, located on Level 9 of the Central Library, offers a space for writers to work on their projects and access Library resources. Use of the room is through an application process for the Writers’ Room Residency. We… Continue reading

  • Camp NaNoWriMo

    In addition to the big National Novel Writing Month that happens every November, NaNoWriMo also hosts two writing camps, one in April and one in July. These camps can be used to do a variety of writing projects, including finishing your novel, revising/editing a novel, planning for a new one, or world building. The main… Continue reading

  • Unmuted Spotlights the Connective Power of Personal Storytelling

    Seattle-based memoir author and writing coach Ingrid Ricks recently led a personal storywriting workshop for LGBTQIA seniors and their allies at Seattle’s GenPRIDE center. The workshop built a community of writers and generated an intriguing anthology of fourteen stories entitled Unmuted: Stories of Courage and Resilience from the GenPRIDE Community, released in October to celebrate… Continue reading

  • Write into Fall!

    Seattle Writes returns this Fall-virtually! We will be offering a slate of live two-hour classes, short video lectures, and Write with Hugo House writing circles. Read on to find out more, or go directly to our Seattle Writes event calendar for more details! Attend Online Writing Classes Seasoned writers are sharing their knowledge and skill… Continue reading

  • Write On!: Get Graphic! Go Comic!

    Are you drawn to drawing your own world? Do you picture rows of frames, imagine scenes, come up with your own cast of characters and play those scenes out in your mind? Is there, somewhere near, a messy pile of graphic novels or comic books that you have poured over a hundred times or more?… Continue reading

  • Write On!: Writers Writing Life

    You’ve read their work, admire their writing and anticipate reading their next book. Have you ever wondered, from whence did those words spring forth? Some readers are curious about the forces that give shape to a writer’s identity. They are intrigued about the circumstances that were foundational to the development of an author’s work. Continue reading

  • Write On!: Publish Your Writing

    Check! You did it, you’ve done the hardest part. You’ve taken an idea, a slither of an idea and honed it into a strong piece of writing. Now, you’re ready to send it out into the world. This brings you to another beginning. This beginning is just as crucial and just as important as completing… Continue reading

  • Write On!: Get Moving, Write that Screenplay

    Do you wonder How Hollywood Does It? Are you intrigued by all the moving parts that are part and parcel of getting a film on the screen? From where you sit, gazing up at the final cut, are you one of the few people in the audience who even knows the screenwriter’s name? Every film… Continue reading

  • Write On! Crafting the Novel, Creating Imaginary Lives

    Write On! Crafting the Novel, Creating Imaginary Lives

    Let’s start at the beginning, in that place From Where You Dream, at the first flash of a place, a line or a face.  Start, precisely, there, Creating Characters as you continue to construct, in your mind, the Architecture of the Novel you will write. Ok, maybe, you have to start at that other beginning.… Continue reading

  • Write On!: A Story Only You Can Tell, Writing a Memoir

    Your Life is a Book. The very act of writing the story of your life whether for yourself, your family and friends or for any reading eye, is significant. Where to begin? How will you capture those Shimmering Images in words that evoke the feelings, the meaning and importance of long ago moments? How do… Continue reading

  • Write On!: Nonfiction Writing Informs the World

    Do you have an investigative mind? Is sussing out the “true story” something that intrigues you? Does researching a topic or an issue give you a thrill? How many times has someone said, “You should write about that!” If you have, ever, dashed off a letter to the editor, why did you stop there? Why… Continue reading

  • Write on!: The Very Personal Journey of Keeping a Journal

    You can travel any day at any time, circle back and revisit the past in the present or venture far into the future. Moments are remembered, ideas may be realized or not, a memory cherished, a day best left forgotten is there on the page and, now, you realize something you could not have understood,… Continue reading

  • Seattle Writes offers free writing classes this fall

    Strengthen your fiction, improve your nonfiction, experiment with poetry — we have more than 25 free writing classes lined up for writers this fall  through the Seattle Writes series. You’ll also find drop-in writing circles (no pressure! really!), write-ins scheduled during November for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), and special presentations on writing and publishing… Continue reading

  • The Language of Water: Poetry on Buses

    By Library Staff Do you have a thirst for verse? Well, there’s a way to quench it! The Poetry on Buses Public Art Program, a partnership between 4Culture and Metro Transit, invites poets of all inclinations to submit a poem around a particular theme.  The 2016 theme is “Your Body of Water” and the Office… Continue reading