Writing About Texas   By WLT Board President, Tony Burnett Texas is widely recognized as a hotbed of literary talent. If you regularly attend the Writers’ League of Texas’ Third Thursday panels, this will come as no surprise. The March event brought stratospheric levels of accomplishment to the panel. Rarely

When Less is More: Writing Short Stories, Essays, and Flash Fiction By Writers’ League Intern, Max Friedman As the clock struck 7:00, the attendees of February’s Third Thursday panel settled down into their seats. The panelists took small sips from their water bottles, preparing to tackle tonight’s theme: writing short stories,

Writing About Loved Ones: Telling the Truth without Losing Your Place at the Holiday Table By WLT Intern, Lily Angelle We’re in the thick of the holiday season, so it seems appropriate that our last Third Thursday of the year dealt with memoir writing, and the personal and familial struggles

Ghostwriting: Unseen Authors Tell Their Tales   By Tony Burnett As the edge of night approached our fair city on the Third Thursday of October, passionate souls from across the region converged in the cavernous upper room of BookPeople to share in a long celebrated tradition. Throughout decades of history

Emotional Research: Mining Your Own Mental States for Your Stories      By WLT Intern Jonasu Wagstaff Our theme for this month’s Writers’ League of Texas Third Thursday event was “Emotional Research: Mining Your Own Mental States for Your Stories.” We were privileged to have four distinguished authors on our

Coming of Age: Writing for Teens and Tweens by WLT Intern, Jourden Sander Our theme for this month’s Writers’ League of Texas Third Thursday event was YA and middle grade fiction. What better time to talk about teens and tweens than when they’re about to head off to school? We

WLT’s May Third Thursday event is just a day away. Join us at BookPeople at 7:00 PM, where we’ll be discussing everyone’s favorite topic: FOOD! Our fantastic foodie panel includes Addie Broyles (Austin American Statesman and Austin Food Bloggers Alliance), James McWilliams (author of Just Food: Where Locavores Get it Wrong and How We Can

     As the October Third Thursday panel began, the audience was sequestered on the third floor of BookPeople with no means of escape except a small lackadaisical elevator.  Jennifer Zeigler, the Writers League program director, moderated the panel, featuring four authors of high adrenaline fiction who had drastically different styles

Using Beta-Readers and Critique Groups “In writing, you must kill your darlings.”  –  William Faulkner    Faulkner obviously said this before the advent of the computer. As writers, we never kill anything we love. We just put it in foster care until we can find a home for it.  What do