Posts by San Francisco Writers Conference
WHEN THERE IS NO ARCHITECTURE
Maya Lyn Viet Nam Veterans Memorial WHEN THERE IS NO ARCHITECTURE When Veteran’s Day came last weekend here in the US war wasn’t hard to imagine. The daily news of Russia/Ukraine and Israel/Hamas. What can we do? Maya Lin was a college student at Yale when her design was chosen. The monument was dedicated…
Read MoreEven Writing is a Results-Oriented Business
Even Writing is a Results-Oriented Business By Bruce Wawrzyniak Podcasters want followers, YouTubers want views, both want followers (a.k.a. subscribers), indie music artists want downloads, and you as a writer want to see people consuming your creations too. You publish something, you celebrate, you exhale, and now it’s time to activate the next phase so…
Read More#8 HIDE OR REVEAL?
HIDE OR REVEAL? By Mary Rakow, Ph.D. MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NYC Author photo, 2023. In May I saw, for the first time, the breathtaking expansion and renovation of MoMA completed in October 2019. I liked this view as much as I did any of the works of art, and it reminded me so deeply about…
Read MoreHow to Partner with a Publicist
This past February when I spoke at the San Francisco Writers Conference I told the attendees that as logical as it would seem to start with a publicist when you have a book that’s about to come out, it’s actually advantageous to do so well before then. Let’s address the elephant in the room right…
Read More#7 ARCHITECTURE OF THE INVISIBLE
ARCHITECTURE OF THE INVISIBLE By Mary Rakow, Ph.D. For some years I dated an extraordinary individual, a world-ranked mathematician whose entire life has been, since early childhood, consumed with the pursuit of the invisible. His field is logic, the least applied field in mathematics. But to him and the elite group of colleagues at…
Read MoreGet Inspired by Architecture #6, Writing for Change
Writing for Change By Mary Rakow, Ph.D. My grandson and I sat in the lobby of the East Building of the National Gallery of Art watching Calder Mobiles move in the great atrium. It was gorgeous. Later at Burger King I read architect Zaha Hadid had suddenly died. I didn’t know her work. And all…
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