The Roeder Report: Importance of Writing Environment
I’m writing this piece in a coffee shop. I know, I know, you think of a coffee shop as a place where people slurp down their lattes as fast as burn prevention allows before leaping from their seats to...
View ArticleThe Roeder Report: Just Trying to Be Nice
“Your story puts my navel- gazing claptrap into reassuring perspective.” “I’ve never considered literacy a mixed blessing until now.” “Did you outsource this story to the dumbest squirrel you could...
View ArticleThe Roeder Report: Who Needs an Outline
Wherever I go, everyone wants to know how I assemble the columns they occasionally skim once they’ve finished Writer’s Digest’s useful content. Well, I describe my writing process like this: “Writing...
View ArticleThe Roeder Report:Fiction to Film
Why do we do it? All the hours we writers spend with no company other than our thoughts and our words, and for what? Some of us want to leave something behind when we’re gone—an account of the times we...
View ArticleThe Roeder Report:The Four Types of Plagiarists
Plagiarism has existed as long as human creativity. Many of the earliest cave painters were disgraced when side-by-side comparisons revealed numerous similarities between their images of various...
View ArticleThe Roeder Report:You Can Write a Humor Book
Reader, you’re hilarious. This has been verified by your mother, a co-worker who says you’re one of the 20 funniest people he knows, and the stand-up comedy teacher who will tell you anything to get...
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