Writing Advice

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• Am I hallucinating, or is the screen going wavy again?

  
  Author! Author! — Authority: 120
  Did any of you sharp-eyed self-editors happen to catch the really, really subtle test of your conceptual editing skills cleverly concealed in yesterday’s post ? Nobody left a comment about it, so I assume nobody noticed. Or perhaps those who did were merely too kind to point it out. Any guesses? If your hand ...
  22 hours ago

• Twitter Linkage + Writing Advice + A Gift from James McAvoy

  
  Natural/Artifical — Authority: 106
  A few weeks ago , I posted a video of Australian comedian Tim Minchin singing a Very Amusing song called, "If I Didnt Have You." Last night, literary superhunk Neil Gaiman tweeted a link to this Minchin Christmas song: I was surprised by how . . . beautiful it was. Quite different from the majority of his ...
  1 day ago

• Decembering

  
  Amanda the Aspiring TV Writer — Authority: 116
  Sorry I havent been updating so much. You guys dont seem to be as quizzical as you used to! Feel free to send in any burning questions. Ive actually spent the last couple days in the writers office of an upcoming network drama. Im just filling in for a writers PA who went home early for winter break, but its been ...
  1 day ago

• 10 Craft Tips I Learned from Twitter

  
  NoTitles: still thinking — Authority: 115
  There is always room to edit. Stay on point! Don’t put yourself in a position to backpedal. Think about the implications of what you’re saying. Quoting others is good, but original content is what makes you stand out. Give us new thoughts on old ideas. No one is required to follow you. It’s your job to give ...
  1 week ago

• Blogging tips - and your internet presence

  
  Amanda the Aspiring TV Writer — Authority: 116
  By now I bet most of you have read the John August vs. Scriptshadow debate . I wont say too much about it since I think its been exhaustively debated, but I did think this response from Craig Mazin was thoughtful . I think there is another lesson to be taken from all this, though: be careful about what you put on ...
  1 week ago

• Marketing with Mitch

  
  Mitchelaneous — Authority: 121
  I write all the time, but not often can I really look back and say I am totally happy, inspired and happy about an article.  With that said, I wanted to share with you all a marketing article I wrote for this month’s Lunarpages newsletter.  There is no confusing lingo, or talking over anybody’s head.  Just ...
  1 week ago

• Top Homeowners Insurance Companies – Just the Facts Maam

  
  Compare Home Insurance Rates — Authority: 158
  The top homeowners insurance companies are evaluated by JD Power and Associates each year. They give awards annually which evaluate many different components of insurance satisfaction and performance. The components are pricing, … Continue here: Top Homeowners Insurance Companies – Just the Facts Maam
  1 week ago

• 6 Ways to be a More Productive Writer or Blogger

  
  Quips and Tips for Successful Writers — Authority: 411
  The more productive you are as a writer or blogger, the more writing gigs you’ll win, the more books you’ll write, and the more money you’ll earn! One of the keys to earning a great living as a writer is to increase not just the number of words you write every day, but to figure out what’s holding you back ...
  1 week ago

• Whats In a Name: All About Pen Names

  
  Nathan Bransford - Literary Agent — Authority: 124
  Aside from fiddling with fonts, contemplating acknowledgments sections, and/or finding the perfect quote to precede the start of the book, dreaming up pen names is a favored procrastination tool for many aspiring authors out there. As a result, I receive a whole lot of questions about them: should I include my pen ...
  1 week ago

• Finding Markets For Stories

  
  Cat Rambo — Authority: 462
  Recently, John Scalzi wrote about Black Matrix Presss pay rates and its led to a lot of discussion about pay rates and publications. For what its worth, Im in the "you do not need five million tiny publications" camp, but I understand the urge behind it. I think when youre first starting, sure, some publications ...
  1 week ago

• Script Frenzy RE: What am I doing?

  
  EK's Star Log — Authority: 426
  In responce to: RE: What am I doing?Script writing is pretty easy. FAR easier than novel writing actually, because it is straight up dialog and zero descriptions. Pretty much all you need to do is have two characters talk to each other for a while, have a third character wander in and talk to them. [...]
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• Script Frenzy RE: Dirty tricks

  
  EK's Star Log — Authority: 426
  RE: Dirty tricks@@revallyson http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/user/470121 [quote=revallyson]But I admit, I find myself asking, if youre cheating, why bother playing? Theres no major prize for getting to 100 pages, and I know that I would feel like dirt if I submitted an empty pdf and claimed it was 100 pages.[/quote] ...
  1 week ago

• Some Different Self-Editing Rules For Writers

  
  Fuel Your Writing — Authority: 118
  Whatever type of writer you are, there are steadfast self-editing rules. Myself, being an fiction writer (mostly—at least that’s how I fancy myself), I know the basic checklist of rules: use your thesaurus and dictionary, read your work aloud, use the active voice, watch your sentence rhythm, use the ...
  1 week ago

• Getting out of your protagonist’s head and into the — text?

  
  Author! Author! — Authority: 120
  Sorry about the sporadic posts of late, campers — the Grumpy Relative’s health woes continue, and I’ve been trying to spend as much time with GR as humanly possible of late. Turns out that keyboards are surprisingly noisy when someone is trying to sleep. Tonight, though, I may bang on the keys as much as I ...
  1 week ago

• Can

  
  Seize the day — Authority: 416
  I have a flexibility of thought that opens me up to a belief that I can. Whatever it is, I can. How did I get in to the territory of infinite possibility? I think some of it is hard-wired. I was born with it. I find that most creative folks have a decent slice of "impossible dreamer" within them. This works for you ...
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• Writers on Writing

  
  How to write — Authority: 91
  A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. - W. H. Auden You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it’s always just one person encountering the book, it’s not an audience, it’s one to one. - Paul Auster The book is your book. You have been responsible ...
  2 weeks ago

• NaNoWriMo RE: Self Publishing? Good or Evil?

  
  EK's Writing Blog — Authority: 131
  RE: Self Publishing? Good or Evil? Satoru Reid Self Publishing? Good or Evil? 0 / 50,000 Official Participant Joined: Nov 30, 2009 Location: Canada Posts: 4 Posted on: Dec 2, 2009 - 00 00 Hey everyone, Who here has tried self-publishing? If you have tried it tell me ...
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• NaNoWriMo RE: Self Publishing? Good or Evil?

  
  EK's Star Log — Authority: 426
  RE: Self Publishing? Good or Evil? Satoru ReidSelf Publishing? Good or Evil?0 / 50,000Official ParticipantJoined: Nov 30, 2009Location: CanadaPosts: 4Posted on:Dec 2, 2009 – 00 00Hey everyone, Who here has tried self-publishing? If you have tried it tell me what you think about it because I hear self-publishing is ...
  2 weeks ago

• NaNoWriMo RE: Who’s going back to their ‘08 Nano?

  
  EK's Star Log — Authority: 426
  RE: Who’s going back to their ‘08 Nano?phantom000Who’s going back to their ‘08 Nano?53,343 / 50,000Official ParticipantJoined: Oct 18, 2008Location: ArkansasPosts: 101Posted on:Dec 4, 2009 – 12 02Well i am thoroughly burnt out on the story i did for NanoWrimo this year and there are just too many holes to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lure New Readers with Creative Book Signing

  
  Real Words — Authority: 114
  I just spent some time back at home in Tucson with my family. While I was there, I went to the local independent bookstore (Antigone’s) with my dad and my sister to check out a book reading that was being done by an author named Richard Polsky . I admit that I had never heard of this author before my dad ...
  2 weeks ago

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