Summary: This week, three writers get together to compare notes on how they approach their work. You may recognize yourself here, or you may be completely surprised. Whatever you think, you can't help concluding that writers are as varied as can be. Denny Sayers is a professor of education at California State University-Stanislaus. He writes books for teachers that focus on technology, learning languages, and teaching students how to read and write. Brave New Schools (1997, St. Martin's Press) which he wrote with Jim Cummins is still in print, which is rare for a book on the Internet and global learning networks. His new book from Allyn and Bacon Literacy, Diversity and Technology, written with two co-authors, comes out in June. Basil Munroe Godevenos is a blossoming writer. He's the author of Disjoint, a book of short fiction and poetry, he manages an online forum for writers, and he's an occasional blogger. Basil is currently working on a novel, a screenplay, and a comic book. Robert Garrison from Seattle, Washington is an unpublished writer of short fiction and non-fiction and poetry, a technical writer for engineering computer programs and a legal writer of motions and other court documents. He has traveled the world extensively, is a mountain climber and climbing instructor, and a semi-regular blogger at Climber53.com. Join Robert, Basil, Denny, and host Paula B. for a free-ranging discussion of how we write, including: * How they get their ideas out of their heads and into written form and why they work that way (you may be surprised at some of the rituals they practice) * What types of writing software they use * What you can do to make sure your work never gets lost or destroyed (and how they learned the hard way) * How they edit their work (and why they sometimes have to play tricks on themselves in the doing of it) * How you can circumvent printer troubles (at least some of the time) * How to get hard copy manuscripts across the country without having to print, pack, and ship them yourself * How they motivate themselves * Why they write.
