journalism – Rachel Heston-Davis

A Busy Week

ByRachel January 19, 2010 0 Comments

Pub Board discussions are going on this week at Written World Communications. It's quite an exciting time as we look at a selection of submitted work and decide which items to pick for publication this year. We're hoping to start the year off with a bang, and also to be diverse in the fiction we publish. We have discussed genres from romance to historical to paranormal thriller. Just have to wait...

Writing at home — a "real" job?

ByRachel July 30, 2009 4 Comments

Is writing at home a real job? Maybe for Steven King. But is it a real job for aspiring authors who haven't been published and aren't seeing any money yet? Most authors (including me) think so, but there are always those who disagree, who see it as a lazy excuse to stay home. The great write-at-home debate has finally been settled in the Yahoo universe. This Yahoo news article officially...

What's so Creative About Creative Writing?

ByRachel July 8, 2009 7 Comments

What makes a piece of writing creative? Why do certain genres--novels, short stories, poetry, journalism, even copywriting--get the additional word "creative" attached to them? Is it because they require the execution of certain forms? Perhaps the manipulation of form, such as the rising and falling action of a story or the line pattern of poems, and a careful choice of words...

Journalism Found Dead Under Mysterious Circumstances

ByRachel June 27, 2009 4 Comments

By Rachel Heston Davis with contributions by Michael Shane West Journalism (16th century-2009) was found dead today on the Internet, sparking a wave of controversy over possible causes. Its lifeless body was discovered in a pool of its own wildly speculative articles, most of them from the Internet, and rushed to the presses where it was unable to be revived. Concerns about Journalism’s failing...