RaphaelWrites
Lev RaphaelFree weekly reports--with occasional extras--on the writing life, publishing, and books from a widely-published, award-winning veteran of publishing who's also been a print, radio, & online book reviewer as well as a professor of creative writing.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 215 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 7 days ago |
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What Do Writers Want?
Roxane Gay once pointed out in Salon that even successful authors are easily dissatisfied: “What most writers have in common is desire. We want and want and want and want.”
I learned this early on in my publishing career when an author I w...
There’s a Pill for Writer’s Block!
Unable to finish what you started? Having trouble getting starting at all? Does the blank screen trigger anxiety and closet cleaning? Try WRITEVA®, the only doctor-recommended medication to help writers handle moderate-to-severe writer’s bl...
GIs Saved My Father's Life
In early April 1945, my father was packed into a train with 2,500 other prisoners from the notorious Bergen-Belsen camp as the Nazis insanely tried to keep British and American troops from rescuing them. The train was made up of 45 cars wit...
AI Subverts the Writing Process
From The Guardian by Wendy Liu:
“I’ve published many thousands of words, with countless more left on the cutting-room floor. But even the discarded words never felt wasted, because they were the byproduct of thinking. Any writer can attest...
"Am I in Your Book?"
I once heard a verifiable rumor that someone with clout thought she was “in” one of my mystery novels and was pissed off enough to consult a lawyer (who said a lawsuit was a waste of time). This was a bizarre situation because the woman was...
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Author of 27 books from memoir to mystery + 100s of essays, short stories, book reviews, blogs. Lev taught creative writing at Michigan State University and Regents College in London and has been invited to teach at Leipzig University.
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