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1. The Stopwatch
Writers are notoriously undisciplined and, consequently, always looking for methods and gadgets to trick them into writing. One that I use is a stopwatch. At first I bought a physical stopwatch from a sporting goods store, but now I use a stopwatch widget on my computer. I set a number of hours […]
If you’re working on a book-length project, whether it be a novel, a memoir, a nonfiction book or a doctoral thesis, you’ll probably need an editor at some point. You may have writer/editor friends who can do it for little or no money, or you may prefer to wait until you get that book deal, […]
Today I want to talk about rejection and how we, as writers, deal with it. When I was modeling in Europe (MANY years ago), I went on castings nearly every day. If I did 20 castings in a week and got two jobs out of those, I was doing pretty well (two jobs a week […]
A quick post-Thanksgiving roundup of links today.
My favorite this week was an inspiring post over at Market My Words about how she (Shelli) went from having no blog followers and many rejection letters to having 350+ followers and a book deal in just one year.
Nathan Bransford has a fabulous post about the […]
Like I said before, I will address different ways to build your author platform over a series of posts. This one will be about blogging. Writerland is a new blog, and I don’t claim to be an expert on blogging, but I can share some of the information I’ve gleaned from books, articles and sites […]
Julia Scheeres is the author of the New York Times Bestseller Jesus Land, published in 2006. Today she is working on a book titled Jonestown, due out in 2011.
(Jonestown was a utopian community formed by Americans in Guyana, South America, under the leadership of a Bay Area preacher named Jim Jones. On […]
Last Monday’s post on “that” vs. “which” and “I” vs. “me” led to some interesting comments about other words people often confuse. Here is the list with a few more added. They’re in no particular order.
1. Irregardless—this is not a word! It’s regardless, regardless of how much emphasis you want to put on it.
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It’s tradition on writing/editing/publishing blogs to show your link love every Friday. Here are some highlights from this week:
According to agent Kristen Nelson, “really good might not be good enough” in this market.
Via agent Janet Reid, here is Tom’s Glossary of Book Publishing Terms. Funny!
After publishing blogs lit up over the Harlequin […]
George Consagra, the COO of Scribd.com came to the Grotto for lunch this past June. If you don’t know what Scribd (pronouncd “Scribbed”) is, it started two years ago as a YouTube for documents, and in May transformed into an iTunes for documents as members became able to name their price for material they uploaded. […]
After gathering this list of craft books from my writing friends, I decided to revisit some of my favorites to see which bits of advice have had the greatest impact on my writing habits.
This passage from Annie Lamott’s Bird by […]
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