The Writer's Workshop Review - An Online Literary Magazine

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December 31, 2016

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Excerpt from The Way of the Writer

Nonfiction

Charles Johnson

My day is the reverse of what a day is for most people. Typically, I’m up working all night until five or six a.m., the same kind of schedule kept by Descartes and Balzac...

Twelve Writing Secrets of Jennifer Steil

Nonfiction

Susan W. Kemp

While hiking with four other women in Yemen, she was taken hostage by a “crazy sheikh” and eight of his men. Others had just been executed in the North, and she was nearly certain she wouldn’t survive the traumatic ordeal...

A Doula in Somaliland

Nonfiction

Elayne Clift

An unkempt man crawls through a hole in the aircraft fuselage, pulls in a ladder, seals the door, and heads to the cockpit. He is our pilot...

"I have believed in the traditional Japanese concept of bunburyodo—also favored by the writer Yukio Mishima—which literally means “the pen and the sword in accord," literary and martial arts together.— Charles Johnson. (Steven Ho, Martial Arts Kick)

An Interview with Charles Johnson

Interview

Nick O’Connell

When you write a story, you have to do everything that the entire film crew listed in the movie credits does, which is work as a scriptwriter, producer, prop person, costume designer—the whole thing. You have far greater freedom as a writer of fiction, and you're challenged to force your imagination into all these different roles...

Dispatches

Listening to the Grapes

Nonfiction

Nick O’Connell

Dinner with legendary winemaker Warren Winiarski, formerly of Stag's Leap Wine Cellars, on the secrets of making world-class red wine...

My Mother, the Apple Tree

Nonfiction

Susan Little

The garden would serve as a memorial to her maternal strength that had withstood the many challenges that life brought, among them brain surgery as a young matron...

Editor's Note

Nonfiction

Nick O’Connell

In his classes, Charles Johnson taught that writing required not just inspiration but technique and aesthetic design. You had to learn how to tell a story and understand why you were telling it...