Meet the Staff Meet Joyce, who published a series of very well received historical novels in the late 80's and now confines her writing to freelance work on topics that interest her and on doing historical research for other writers. Not to mention stopping into the block once a week or so to offer opinion and advice. It's not a closed club. Everyone can write. Some do it better than others, but almost no one does it because they have to.
Writing is a calling.
A spiritual, nebulous thing that wakes us at 2am with the perfect bit of dialogue and has us talking to ourselves at stoplights. Meet Dana , who's a freelance literary agent with an impressive list of clientele and the special ability to look at a work and determine if there's a market for it. She works in LA now and has shifted her focus to screenplays, but for us, she's unsheathing those editorial claws to once again look at the work of budding writers. I sell writer's to other people, who mostly don't write, so when I read a work, I'm most interested in the texture of it. She stops by for coffee from time to time and tosses in her expertise to the Block.