Arthur Klepchukov's Writing
Gaithersburg Book Festival logo I've been invited to give my submissions workshop at the lovely Gaithersburg Book Festival in Gaithersburg, MD for a third time on Saturday, May 21. Perhaps you've written a few stories, poems or essays and want to know where and how to submit your work for publication. What's the best draft… Continue reading Attend My Free Submissions Workshop at the 2022 Gaithersburg Book Festival
Why should a novel writer devote precious writing time to short stories? After five novel drafts, two years of submitting shorter fiction, and seven publications, here are my reasons.
The following are ways I'm staying engaged with my local literary community this Spring. Events range from casual and free to more professional and paid. But you never know where inspiration will strike.
I've attended and hosted Shut Up & Write(!) meetups in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2013. Now I'm starting a D.C. meetup.
My first online publication appears in Necessary Fiction. "Rivet Here" is a story is about a new kind of relationship that blossoms in a small town when all the men leave for World War II. Read the story and its journey to publication.
Accomplishments come with costs. These were mine for 2017.
Lessons learned in writing 50,000 words of a new novel last November for NaNoWriMo.
What it took to get to my first published piece of fiction.
Where are you at 10:00am sharp on Saturday mornings? Sleeping in? Waking up? Waiting for brunch? I’m usually grabbing a seat at Mo Joe’s Cafe for a Shut Up & Write! marathon. To make it on time, I have to wake up before 8 in sleepy San Francisco to catch a just-shy-of-9 train that whisks me… Continue reading Why I Shut Up & Write
Arsenal of Words 