<![CDATA[BookPleasures.com - Articles - ]]> https://www.bookpleasures.com/websitepublisher en-us N/A bookpleasures@gmail.com Tue, 19 May 2026 13:32:22 UTC 20 Alec Baldwin false authors, reviews, publishers, literature, critiques clean <![CDATA[Who Supports Your Writing? Contributed To Bookpleasures.com By Nancy Hatch Woodward]]> https://www.bookpleasures.com/websitepublisher/articles/5669/1/Who-Supports-Your-Writing-Contributed-To-Bookpleasurescom-By-Nancy-Hatch-Woodward/Page1.html New Year’s will be here before you know it. Find a way to commit to your progress as a writer. Make it personal, but make it meaningful as well. ]]> no@spam.com (Nancy Hatch Woodward) https://www.bookpleasures.com/websitepublisher/articles/5669/1/Who-Supports-Your-Writing-Contributed-To-Bookpleasurescom-By-Nancy-Hatch-Woodward/Page1.html <![CDATA[ No Victims in Memoir Contributed To Bookpleasures.com By Nancy Hatch Woodward]]> https://www.bookpleasures.com/websitepublisher/articles/5639/1/--No-Victims-in-Memoir-Contributed-To-Bookpleasurescom-By-Nancy-Hatch-Woodward/Page1.html Are you a victim? Do you feel as though life has been unfair to you and if you could only write about, let the world know how tough things have been for you, the story would be a best seller? Some writers look at memoir this way – a chance to tell all about the abuse they have suffered. All you have to do is look at the shelves of memoirs at your local bookstore to see they are chock full of terrible stories – abusive childhoods; terrible marriages and/or divorces; sex, drugs, and rock and roll experiences that didn’t turn out well; catastrophic health nightmares, to name a few. It’s time someone tell the truth about that scumbag spouse, those uncaring doctors, that vicious teacher from 8th grade. ]]> no@spam.com (Nancy Hatch Woodward) https://www.bookpleasures.com/websitepublisher/articles/5639/1/--No-Victims-in-Memoir-Contributed-To-Bookpleasurescom-By-Nancy-Hatch-Woodward/Page1.html <![CDATA[ Beginning Critiques Contributed To Bookpleasures.com By Nancy Hatch Woodward]]> https://www.bookpleasures.com/websitepublisher/articles/5613/1/--Beginning-Critiques-Contributed-To-Bookpleasurescom-By-Nancy-Hatch-Woodward/Page1.html Starting a critiquing group? New to critiquing? When people are just learning how to critique, I don’t throw a long list of items for them to consider. I start them off gently, a little at a time. We begin with listening to the author read his or her poem, story, etc. While they listen, they take pen to paper and note what they liked about the following items – by jotting down a word or two about each ]]> no@spam.com (Nancy Hatch Woodward) https://www.bookpleasures.com/websitepublisher/articles/5613/1/--Beginning-Critiques-Contributed-To-Bookpleasurescom-By-Nancy-Hatch-Woodward/Page1.html <![CDATA[Tabula Rasa Contributed To Bookpleasures.com By Nancy Hatch Woodward]]> https://www.bookpleasures.com/websitepublisher/articles/5595/1/Tabula-Rasa-Contributed-To-Bookpleasurescom-By-Nancy-Hatch-Woodward/Page1.html We face a clean sheet of paper (or computer screen) and begin our stories and poems – starting tabula rasa. But are we really? Is it a clean slate in front of us? Are our characters pure before we bring them into being? And what about the plot of our stories or point of our poems? Do they just pop out of the ethereal ether? What is the role of the muse if not to bestow upon us eureka experiences to write about?

]]> no@spam.com (Nancy Hatch Woodward) https://www.bookpleasures.com/websitepublisher/articles/5595/1/Tabula-Rasa-Contributed-To-Bookpleasurescom-By-Nancy-Hatch-Woodward/Page1.html <![CDATA[Lilly Ledbetter’s Memoir and Everyday Language Contributed To Bookpleasures.com By Nancy Hatch Woodward]]> https://www.bookpleasures.com/websitepublisher/articles/5569/1/Lilly-Ledbetters-Memoir-and-Everyday-Language-Contributed-To-Bookpleasurescom-By-Nancy-Hatch-Woodward/Page1.html Lilly Ledbetter’s Memoir and Everyday Language

]]> no@spam.com (Nancy Hatch Woodward) https://www.bookpleasures.com/websitepublisher/articles/5569/1/Lilly-Ledbetters-Memoir-and-Everyday-Language-Contributed-To-Bookpleasurescom-By-Nancy-Hatch-Woodward/Page1.html <![CDATA[ Writing with Nine Children Contributed To Bookpleasures.com By Nancy Hatch Woodward]]> https://www.bookpleasures.com/websitepublisher/articles/5541/1/--Writing-with-Nine-Children-Contributed-To-Bookpleasurescom-By-Nancy-Hatch-Woodward/Page1.html You think it’s tough to find time to write? You haven’t met Melissa Fay Greene, author of numerous books: Praying for Sheetrock, Finalist for the 1991 National Book Award and a New York Times Notable book; The Temple Bombing; There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children and her latest, No Biking in the House Without a Helmet.

]]> no@spam.com (Nancy Hatch Woodward) https://www.bookpleasures.com/websitepublisher/articles/5541/1/--Writing-with-Nine-Children-Contributed-To-Bookpleasurescom-By-Nancy-Hatch-Woodward/Page1.html <![CDATA["Titles" Contributed To Bookpleasures.com By Nancy Hatch Woodward]]> https://www.bookpleasures.com/websitepublisher/articles/5520/1/Titles-Contributed-To-Bookpleasurescom-By-Nancy-Hatch-Woodward/Page1.html A good title not only draws readers in, but it can also be the actual start of the piece you are writing or can allude to some crucial meaning hidden in the writing. A good title is as important as your opening line, paragraph, or page – it should catch the attention of the reader as well as providing some insight as to what is coming.

]]> no@spam.com (Nancy Hatch Woodward) https://www.bookpleasures.com/websitepublisher/articles/5520/1/Titles-Contributed-To-Bookpleasurescom-By-Nancy-Hatch-Woodward/Page1.html <![CDATA[Break Out of Your Rut Contributed To Bookpleasures.com By Nancy Hatch Woodward]]> https://www.bookpleasures.com/websitepublisher/articles/5504/1/Break-Out-of-Your-Rut-Contributed-To-Bookpleasurescom-By-Nancy-Hatch-Woodward/Page1.html

In a rut with your writing? Bored with your sentences, your descriptions, your characters? Is your writing starting to feel contrived? It may be times to shake things up.

]]> no@spam.com (Nancy Hatch Woodward) https://www.bookpleasures.com/websitepublisher/articles/5504/1/Break-Out-of-Your-Rut-Contributed-To-Bookpleasurescom-By-Nancy-Hatch-Woodward/Page1.html <![CDATA[Warding Off Insecurities Contributed To Bookpleasures.com By Nancy Hatch Woodward]]> https://www.bookpleasures.com/websitepublisher/articles/5477/1/Warding-Off-Insecurities-Contributed-To-Bookpleasurescom-By-Nancy-Hatch-Woodward/Page1.html Being a writer means you are insecure – it goes with the territory.  Yet, that’s not the full story.  As writers, we also have enough ego to think we can write something others will not only read, but also often pay to read.  That’s chutzpa.

]]> no@spam.com (Nancy Hatch Woodward) https://www.bookpleasures.com/websitepublisher/articles/5477/1/Warding-Off-Insecurities-Contributed-To-Bookpleasurescom-By-Nancy-Hatch-Woodward/Page1.html <![CDATA[ Real Originality Contributed To Bookpleasures.com by Nancy Hatch Woodward]]> https://www.bookpleasures.com/websitepublisher/articles/5459/1/--Real-Originality-Contributed-To-Bookpleasurescom-by-Nancy-Hatch-Woodward/Page1.html We worry that, if we follow our own path, our work will never be published. But authentic voices and writing always get noticed. It helps our work distinguish itself from the rest of the slush pile that fills editors’ desks. Give them something different, something alive that comes from deep inside you. Do it well and you will certainly get noticed. ]]> no@spam.com (Nancy Hatch Woodward) https://www.bookpleasures.com/websitepublisher/articles/5459/1/--Real-Originality-Contributed-To-Bookpleasurescom-by-Nancy-Hatch-Woodward/Page1.html