Ovidiu Gorea is a jaded, mid-40s, high-school teacher and novice writer, still living with his parents.

A novice writer should try anything, not just to pay the rent, but because he needs practice, versatility, skills.

He is one of several novice writers who have recently produced books about the Street.

Tradition says that a novice writer learns nothing from a writer's conference.

He spoke of a novice writer whose wonderful characters never got involved in anything like a story, and another who mistook funny hats for characterization.

For aspiring authors in Connecticut that challenge can be met with the help of many organizations designed to give the novice writer or poet a boost.

Apparently, such a technique does not permit either writer's block or the endless revising of each passage, problems that can easily plague novice writers.

Each issue carries six or more stories by both established and novice writers, as well as occasional reprints.

Only a novice writer, perhaps, would attempt a juxtaposition of such extravagantly disparate elements.

This series allows novice writers to spend one hundred minutes with a professional writer to learn about various aspects of writing.