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• Stab Me In the Heart … And I’ll Take It Like A Girl

  
  2009: Another Year of the Books — Authority: 468
  *So I got two rejections back-to-back yesterday. Ouch. Double ouch. Rejections never stop hurting. No matter how many times you get accepted, each rejection throws you back into fear and doubt.I can’t do this.I suck at this.I should just give up. Why did I ever think I could be a writer?Right? Okay, maybe that’s ...
  11 hours ago

• weekly writing coach: break it up

  
  don't get caught news & info: communications strategies, training and content — Authority: 121
  Earlier this month, a client told me she was starting to work on the script for a long documentary-style web video . It was a compelling story: a patient had undergone extensive, grueling treatments, and not only had recovered but went on to achieve even more as an athlete and volunteer. There were hours and hours of ...
  14 hours ago

• Warehouse Grub

  
  Freedom From The Mundane — Authority: 114
  Image: Business Pundit I began the mammoth task of sifting through my email yesterday. I’m still missing several days from last week despite being assured they will come through once all the data is copied over, but I remain dubious. AM – can you resend your email please? It looks like it’s got lost and I ...
  18 hours ago

• Writing=Marketing

  
  Some Mad Hope — Authority: 121
  I know Ive read a million times that once you get a publisher to pick up your book the juggling really starts. You not only have to be able to write a book, you have to write a book at the same time as you are editing the last book, and working on marketing for that book or a previous book, even if thats just getting ...
  22 hours ago

• The Hollow Crown revision process step one

  
  Mad Libs — Authority: 125
  So I’m usually rather disorganized about my editing process. My editor sends me a letter giving me her feedback. Usually that involves a couple of pages of the larger issues, then a list of things by page number that are much smaller issues to deal with. The way I usually approach the revisions (once I’ve howled ...
  1 day ago

• I Want This Guy’s Job…

  
  2009: Another Year of the Books — Authority: 468
  *It’s not very often that I wish I had a different job. Now, there are many times when I didn’t have MY job — namely after two rejections in a row, or when the writing. is. just. stalling. so. bad. I. want. to. kick. it. in. the. nuts. But even then, I don’t want to [...]
  1 day ago

• An Interesting Editing Discovery

  
  Author's Echo — Authority: 118
  Im almost halfway through the 3rd Edit of Air Pirates (as you can see on the sidebar, or you could if you also knew that there are 28 chapters). I always notice interesting things when I edit. For one thing, there are always more typos. I mean, whats up with that? For another, Ive discovered that there are ...
  1 day ago

• More from NaNoWriMo...in Kuala Lumpur

  
  Tropic Temper — Authority: 425
  Hard at work!! (as the morning wore on, another three people came...) On Saturday morning we had a write in at a coffee shop in Bangsar. Good fun to meet fellow NaNoWriMo folk. Most of whom did more writing than me... I was too busy making everyones aquaintance. Still, managed 1,000 words in spite of the chatting. ...
  1 day ago

• The Mail I Get - Writing the Treatment

  
  A Writer's Life — Authority: 472
  Bryon Stedman  asked me this question in a comment  to another post: I have a situation where a broadcast entity claims they want to hear my idea for a boxing series or made for TV movie. The characters belong to my family from a comic drawn by my father. If a narrative is they way to go, what are the key ...
  2 days ago

• Nanoday #7 — the YA teen romance gets going — belles lettres, style…

  
  Valentine Bonnaire — Authority: 123
  Had a good morning, but it took a while to get started.  Over at Uppity’s I watched a trailer for “V” — hmm… It’s harder than I thought a bit going over 2,000 a day.  The secret is not to worry too much about editing the rough draft — I decided to do character driven and I think that is where I spend ...
  3 days ago

• A Single Story

  
  2009: Another Year of the Books — Authority: 468
  Posted in Writing Process Tagged: A Single Story, TED
  3 days ago

• The Internal Editor: Sometimes Forcible Confinement Is Best

  
  Booklorn — Authority: 408
  Most Novembers I end up doing NaNoWriMo . The combination of a deadline and a word count forces me to write whether I have something to say or not. The first year that I did NaNoWriMo (way back in the mists of time, circa 2005), I went to the local kick off party where we ate pizza, introduced ourselves, and did a ...
  4 days ago

• Fifteen Days of Deverry Interviews: Writers and Creativity

  
  DeepGenre — Authority: 455
  QUESTION: Let’s talk about the meta part of writing. When we were young, it was all about the story. As we get older, we not only look harder at the material, but at ourselves as writers. How have you changed as a writer? KIT: I hope, quite simply, that I’ve gotten better. I think I have. When I look at ...
  4 days ago

• Writing in the Dark

  
  HighCallingBlogs.com — Authority: 540
  L.L. here with Random Acts of Poetry. Writing in the dark. “That’s bad for your eyes, LL,” somebody’s going to say. And I’m not going to argue. Because the kind of in-the-dark writing I do is all in my head. This is not to say I imagine I write in the dark. I really DO write in the dark. Especially ...
  4 days ago

• Writing continues

  
  Tropic Temper — Authority: 425
  . Fridays NaNoWriMo count: 2083 Back on track with the over 2,000, but didnt manage to catch up what I missed yesterday. Quote from Carl Sagan: “Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything ...
  4 days ago

• The thing I love most...

  
  Some Mad Hope — Authority: 121
  Its Friday and I find myself asking, where the heck did the week go? I guess I had kids home several days because of teacher conferences, another got the flu, there was a final goldfish burial, election day, a random trip to the gym (which is getting infrequent enough to be rendered almost useless)... and there went ...
  4 days ago

• First Outside Author Pep Talk Knocks it Out of the Park

  
  Words, Words, Words — Authority: 110
  A couple days ago, I wrote that, while I enjoy the pep talks that famous writers put together for Nanowrimo participants, they often feel out of touch with what I think the month is about: Today, I eat my words. Jasper Fforde gets it. His pep talk, the first I’ve received this month from an outside author, ...
  5 days ago

• Hiccup in the progress...

  
  Tropic Temper — Authority: 425
  . Yesterday things conspired to keep me from reaching my target of 2,000 words. Only 1,460 achieved... Total for NaNoWriMo is just short of 10,000 after 5 days. For writers: Do check out this site Daily Diversions for Writers at Inkygirl.com
  5 days ago

• The Crow Murders — Revision Blues

  
  Jonathan Ball dot com — Authority: 116
  Sang the revision blues today while skipping through the pages of my manuscript for The Crow Murders . This is the novel I offered as my Ph.D. thesis at the University of Calgary. The manuscript serves as a defensible thesis but is not a publishable novel. A lot of work still needs to be done, more work than I think ...
  5 days ago

• Avoid All These Things

  
  Original Content — Authority: 131
  If you NaNoWriMoers have a moment to do something other than write, you might check out Why Your Manuscript Can Get Rejected (Part II) at Guide to Literary Agents . Among the most interesting of agent Donna Bagdasarian s top reasons manuscripts are rejected: "4. Not having the protagonist involved in the ...
  5 days ago

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