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A note on writing groups and workshops. My work has been workshopped at least a hundred times. I’ve been in a writing group on and off since 2002, I earned an MFA in 2006, and I attended the Squaw Valley Writers’ Conference in 2007—all which used the traditional workshop format of critiquing manuscripts with slight […]
I am reluctant to get too much into copyediting because I am a stickler for grammatical and other errors, and I hate to get too caught up in that and lose sight of the more important things in a story like plot, dialogue, characters, etc. But here we go. A lot of common mistakes I […]
Here is a great passage from a Salon.com article written by Laura Miller about Ben Yagoda’s new book, Memoir: A History:
As Yagoda entertainingly demonstrates, none of the criticisms and debates about today’s memoirs are unprecedented. From the very beginning (if by the beginning you mean the “Confessions” of St. Augustine and “The Life of […]
It’s tradition on writing/editing/publishing blogs to show your link love every Friday. Here are some highlights from this week:
Agent Nathan Bransford writes in the Huffington Post about what it takes to “move the needle,” or make an impact, within the publishing industry.
Ben Parr over at Mashable writes about how LinkedIn and Twitter […]
The two most talked about topics on publishing blogs these days are e-books (ie when are you getting one?) and author platforms (ie why don’t you have one?). I’ve covered e-books, now on to platforms. Six months ago, I didn’t know what a platform was. Had never heard the term before. And now, it seems […]
I’m not done reading my Vook, but I’m going to give a halfway report. First of all, the vook I bought is Gary Vaynerchuk’s Crush It. Although I’d never heard of Vaynerchuk before I bought the vook, I’m a sucker for all social media literature at the moment, and his looked genuinely interesting. Now that […]
I first heard about the cell phone novel when George Consagra, COO of Scribd, came to the Grotto for lunch. According to Consagra, 86% of Japanese teenagers read novels on their cell phones. Agent extraordinaire Nathan Bransford, has also blogged about reading books on his cell phone. (We’re talking about a smart phone, of course, […]
I asked some writer friends what craft of writing books they recommend, and here is the list in no particular order (although Bird by Bird was by far the most recommended). I’ve read only 13 of them, so I can’t vouch for all of them. Here they are:
1. Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
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Now for our editing hour. Here are a few basics:
For beginning writers setting out write a short story, novel or memoir, there are quite a few enduring writing rules that can transform a mediocre piece of work into one that’s readable—in other words, a piece of crap into something kinda good. Here are just […]
Resist all you wish, but we will ALL eventually be reading books on e-readers. Bookcases will become archaic pieces of furniture reserved for people who use film cameras and collect CDs. Like it makes no sense to carry a hundred CDs in your car when you can pack an iPod, it will make no sense […]
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