Writing

Alternative Ending

Post written by Christa Avampato. You can follow Christa on Twitter. “If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.” – Orson Welles Last week I was featured on Daily Worth, a site that provides advice, tips, and information to help women better manage their finances. Amanda Steinberg, [...]

August 17, 2009 CONTINUE READING →

Eat, Pray, Love vs. Julie & Julia

A guest post by Greg Freed. You can follow Greg on Twitter. It seems clear to me that if I’m going to write a column where I disperse creative writing advice, I should first define the aims of my creative writing. I will start with a negative theology: 1) The primary focus of writing is [...]

August 16, 2009 CONTINUE READING →

This Week’s Fabulous Find: World’s Strongest Librarian

Authored by Laura Cococcia, TJCC Editor As many of you know, when I find a new site I love, I need to scream it from the rooftops. It’s just one of my many compulsive habits. Josh Hanagarne is the creator and author of World’s Strongest Librarian. In his words, it is “a blog for anyone [...]

August 13, 2009 CONTINUE READING →

Scream a Song

A guest post by Greg Freed. You can follow Greg on Twitter. One of my favorite pastimes is to collect information from writers about writing. Whether the insights come in the form of interviews, essays, books, or word of mouth, I love logging the tidbits away for my own personal use. I see on social [...]

August 7, 2009 CONTINUE READING →

The Art of Listening

A guest post by Frank Mundo. You can follow Frank on Twitter. I used to think prose poetry was a scam, the literary equivalent of madly dripping or wildly flinging paint onto a canvas as art. Prose poetry, it seemed to me, was at best the product of the creative intellectual exercises of people way [...]

August 3, 2009 CONTINUE READING →

Brilliant Voices: Interview With Jeannine Hebb

Post written by Laura Cococcia. You can follow Laura on Twitter. From the age of 11, Jeannine Hebb has been singing her own song. An award-winnning singer and songwriter, Jeannine recently debuted her original album “Too Late to Change Me” and has performed throughout the Northeast. Jeannine graduated magna cum laude from Berklee College of [...]

July 31, 2009 CONTINUE READING →

Be The Wonder Woman You Can Be: Wise Words From Diane von Furstenberg

Authored by Christa Avampato. You can follow Christa on Twitter. “Be the woman you can be. I’ve never met a woman who’s not strong. They don’t exist. We might sometimes be afraid of our strength or afraid of what others will think of our strength. But you must know that your strength is always there.” [...]

July 27, 2009 CONTINUE READING →

Musical Mentors: An Interview with Jason Harrod

Over the years, I’ve created my own personal music culture, defined mostly by recommendations from friends, the timeless college unforgettables and my own personal fantasy to have lived as a hippie in the 1960s and 70s. And, I can’t leave out the musical influences from my mom and dad (read: Abba, The Carpenters and a [...]

July 23, 2009 CONTINUE READING →