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Plot board

Posted September 20 2011 by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett

I’m not the only writer I know who has trouble organizing her material–especially when you get above a certain page count and revisions start mounting, it can be brutal, keeping track. 

So I created this: A plot board, is what others call it. I’ve been writing down on a mini-legal pad what’s going on in each chapter, but I work better with visuals so here I color coded what’s happening in my memoir. The light pink represents the far past. The light pink, the recent past. Little orange slips are photographs, etc.  (I blurred out text on the Post-its….)  If I need to move the Post-its around, I can. What is in ink are the lines of the squares.  What do you do, to organize?

Pen on Fire Writers Salon with Heidi Durrow and Danzy Senna

Posted September 8 2011 by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett
Travis, setting up before the event

Danzy reads from You Are Free
In the background, Heidi talks with author Lynda Zussman. In the foreground, Danzy talks with poet Tina Lustig
Danzy, Heidi, and me

Tina, CJ Bahnsen, Heidi, Danzy, Debra Cross

What a great night with two brilliant authors and an intelligent crowd of writers, and readers.  If  you were there, and would like to hear them talk more about their books and writing, each will be on the show–Danzy next week and Heidi at the end of October. Stay informed by getting on the elist. Email penonfire at earthlink dot net and ask to be put on the elist.

Photography: C.J. Bahnsen

Literary prize

Posted September 7 2011 by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett

WILLIAM SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WRITING
Deadline for Entries: January 31, 2012
For More Information: http://library.stanford.edu/saroyan/

Nominations are now being accepted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Two prizes of $5,000 each are given biennially for works of fiction and nonfiction. Cosponsored by the Stanford University Libraries and the William Saroyan Foundation, the awards are intended to “encourage new or emerging writers and honor the Saroyan legacy of originality, vitality, and stylistic innovation.”

Submit five copies of a novel, short story collection, or work of creative nonfiction published between January 1, 2010, and December 31, 2011, with a $50 entry fee. Visit the website for more information, including entry forms, contest rules, and complete guidelines. Go to: saroyanprize.stanford.edu

DEADLINE: Please note that entries must be received on or before January 31, 2012.

If you have additional questions, feel free to contact Stanford University Libraries, William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, Green Library, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-6004. Sonia Lee, Saroyan Prize Administrator: sonialee@stanford.edu , (650) 736-9538.

Thank you for helping us spread the word!

Best regards,
(Ms.) Sam Petersen, for Stanford University Libraries
Tel: 650.854.5575; Email: sampetersen@sbcglobal.net