Writers from California

“The Santa Ana,” by Joan Didion, and “Brush Fire,” by Linda Thomas, both writers discuss their feelings towards the Santa Ana winds. Both Didion and Thomas are from Southern California where they are both well aware of the Santa Ana winds. The Santa Ana winds are dry winds that blow from northern to southern California. These winds are a major topic as there is controversy over if they are a good or bad thing. Both writers, Didion and Thomas, have similar and different perspectives towards the…

the house if we want. We went into the video room where we spent around 15 minutes watching a short movie that was talking about the history of the place, in the movie it was said that the story of Rancho Los Alamitos preceded these first newcomers from Mexico, and it is also part of the ancestral village of Povuu’ngna, the traditional place of origin of the native Gabrielino-Tongva people of the Los Angeles Basin. Nieto’s great land holdings included 25,500 acres which in 1833 became Rancho Los…

screenwriter, and professor, he is currently 78 years old, on May, 15, 2005 he was named Poet Laureate of California by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, an Austrian-American actor, producer, businessman, investor, author, philanthropist, activist, politician, and former professional bodybuilder. Al Young grew up in the rural South of villages and small towns, and in urban, industrial Detroit. From 1957 to 1960 he attended the University of Michigan. He wrote 5 novels, 2 cheap books, 5 musical…

Chbosky. Chbosky is one of the most elaborate writers there is known for The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Pieces; A New Collection of New Voices and Sexaholic. Stephen Chbosky was born on January 25th 1970, in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia. He grew up Catholic living in the Upper St. Clair's with his parents Fred and Lea and younger sister Stacy. While growing up, Chbosky enjoyed classics, horror, and fantasy novels. He loved the novel The Catcher in the Rye; writers F. Scott Fitzgerald and…

the thousand and carrying their investments with them? For writer-businessman Sam and Andrew Wyly, the appropriate response is crystal clear in the book called “Texas Got It Right” published on October 16, 2012 by Melcher Media and foreword by Walter Isaacson. What’s more, exhausted, over-managed states like California, New York, and Illinois missed the…

In the essay, “Shitty First Draft” Anne Lamott addresses the process of writing first drafts and improving them through a series of editss. She discusses the struggles, professional writers experience in order to produce outstanding works. The audience of this essay would be all passionate writers who strive to make their writing better. Similarly, the audience could also be the ordinary citizens that struggle to begin their first draft and afraid of inserting their expressions into writing.…

The horror in California began on Friday, December 20, 1968 in the city of Vallejo when sixteen-year-old Betty Lou Jensen and seventeen-year-old David Faraday were killed while out on a date. According to Haugen (2011), they had driven to a remote lover’s lane on Lake Herman Road. While they were parked, a vehicle stopped nearby and the driver got out, shot out the rear passenger window of David Faraday’s station wagon, and then shot the left rear tire. The man proceeded to shoot Faraday…

enough information for beginning writers to start writing the stories that are within them and learn to avoid the major mistakes most amateurs make. Barnaby Conrad was born March 27, 1922 in California and died February 12, 2003 at age 90. He started out as bull fighter and due to some injures he withdrew from the career and became a writer and the founder of Santa Barbara. The very first book he wrote, that was published,…

The biggest influence on me as a writer was the introduction to National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo. NaNoWriMo is a worldwide phenomenon based out of California. The basic idea is to give writers a chance to stretch themselves by challenging them to write fifty-thousand words in one month. As November approaches each year, novelists prepare to be antisocial and concentrate their brain power on hammering out a novel. From my first introduction to NaNoWriMo in 2013, I have participated…

San Francisco Quake of 1906 On April 8, 1909, a catastrophic earthquake crippled the San Francisco and most of northwest California: sundering the northern two-hundred and ninety-six miles of the San Andreas Fault from northwest of San Juan Bautista to the triple junction at Cape Mendocino. Causing over three thousand deaths and turning one out of every eight houses into rubble. The initial tremors destroyed the city’s water mains, leaving firefighters with no means of combating the growing…