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What I Learned about Writing this Week…from Dreams
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
When I sleep, my brain goes to the place where creativity flows. When I sleep, my conscious self gets out of the way, and my mind goes down to the pool and drinks deep. I am a writer, and I thirst. Constantly. I’m willing to be that you do, too….
Giving Up on the Gatekeepers (3 of 3)
Saturday, May 15, 2010
What should an aspiring writer do while the publishing industry tumbles? Improve fundamentals, build a strong blog, and try things out. Me, I’m self-publishing.
The Changing Face of Publishing
Friday, May 14, 2010
The writer’s path to publication used to lead through literary magazines to submissions editors. Today it goes through a platform to an agent, but what’s next?
Giving Up on the Gatekeepers (1 of 3)
Thursday, May 13, 2010
What does it take for a writer to get published? The path today isn’t the same as it was yesterday, and it’ll probably be something different tomorrow.
What I Learned about Writing this Week…from Yann Martel
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
I’m not terribly interested in penning critiques week after week; I’m way too much into Read-It-For-Fun for that. However, upon occasion I do come across a story I enjoy so much that I want to delve more deeply into it by analyzing, speculating, ruminating, and other gerunds of a thoughtful nature. Yann Martel‘s Life of Pi is one of those stories that makes me want to write about it and write about it, and then write about it some more…
My Felony (Creative Writing Exercise)
Friday, May 7, 2010
This week’s creative writing exercise is a writing prompt. Tell us about your big brush with the law. What’s the most interesting trouble you’ve been in?
How to Build an e-Book from Your Fiction
Thursday, May 6, 2010
I just launched an e-Book full of Tech Writing tips for the business writers, but there are useful technical processes that apply to creative writing, too.
What I Learned about Writing this Week…from Aaron Pogue, Redux
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
…There’s this thing we writers are supposed to have…a thing about reading our work out loud.
Oh no. By all the gods of menthol tissue and postnasal drip, please no…
About the Author (Creative Writing Exercise)
Friday, April 30, 2010
This Creative Writing Exercise calls you to improve your blog: Write your About page to start building your platform. Sell yourself, get started with Wordpress.
