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• There’s No Such Thing as Good Writing

  
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  From The Atlantic: Craig Nova, author of  All the Dead Yale Men , is a manic rewriter. He showed me a picture of what he calls his “slag heap”—a huge stack of manuscript pages, piled several feet high, that accumulated as he wrote his latest book. Nova does not merely tinker with word choice the way some ...
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• Are These Time Suckers Stealing Your Time? How to Stay Focused in a World of Distraction

  
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  From Momeo Magazine: We are our own worst enemies when it comes to staying focused. It’s tempting to blame the friend that called to chit-chat in the middle of your official office hours or the chain of links that lead you to this intensely interesting video of cats riding on automated vacuum cleaners, but trust ...
  6 days ago

• Knowing When to End

  
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  From NYT bestselling author Dave Farland: Have you ever noticed how a television or movie series can grab you at the beginning but feel tired and “old” after a few episodes? I loved Harry Potter when it came out, but for me at least, it became stale. I quit reading the series at book six, deciding that I’d ...
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• Indie Life: Lets Stop Review Inflation

  
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  Anyone who has been to university is familiar with the phenomenon of grade inflation: students are given better grades than they deserve in order to make the department or university look good. Theres a similar process going on in indie publishing that I call review inflation. Its simple: an indie writer gets her ...
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• How We Spend Our Days Is How We Spend Our Lives

  
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  From Brain Pickings: The meaning of life has been pondered by such literary icons as Leo Tolstoy (1904), Henry Miller(1918), Anaïs Nin (1946), Viktor Frankl (1946),Italo Calvino (1975), and David Foster Wallace(2005). And though some have argued that today’s age is one where “the great dream is to ...
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• I had the good fortune to sit down with Elmore Leonard

  
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  From Contrapasso Magazine: Back in 1991, I had the good fortune to sit down with Elmore Leonard in his Michigan home during the hot summer and lead up to the fourth of July celebrations that would be the first since Operation Desert Storm, quite a big thing around Detroit. I was there to talk to him about his books ...
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• Kameron Hurley talks about talent and hard work

  
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  Interesting blog post by Kameron (who is on fire when it comes to long form blog content that’s thinky): “We’ve all met those folks who just breezed through math class like it was breathing, or sat at a piano and figured it out easily and could play in a few weeks what took somebody else a few years. But ...
  2 weeks ago

• How to Write for Telefilm

  
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  I recently looked into what it takes to qualify for Telefilm funding, if you’re looking at producing your own film.
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• Ten Ways to Get Your Creative Juices Flowing

  
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  From Huffington Post UK: It’s 5am. I am suddenly awake, bolt upright. A strange feeling. I had to get up NOW and do it. I knew I couldn’t do anything else until I did. I needed to WRITE. The creative juices that I long to flow when I want them to were bursting through a dam of their own accord. The malady of ...
  2 weeks ago

• I’m Just Saying: Finish Your Writing

  
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  With a house full of kids, my mom had a saying for everything. Caught in a lie? She’d pull out Sir Walter Scott: “Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.” Feeling sorry for yourself? Time for a little “I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.” I suppose ...
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• Writing Out a Great Scene

  
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  From New York Times bestselling author Dave Farland: A couple of minutes ago I had an idea for a great scene for the novel I’m currently working on. I’m going to go begin writing it within the hour. Twenty years ago, I would have taken a different tact. I would have waited for the idea to “ferment,” to age ...
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• Blog Posting Tips That Can Help You Out

  
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  TIP! Use search engine optimization techniques to help improve your blog’s readership. To attract your target audience, you want your blog to show up in search results for the topics you focus on. Blogging is easy and everyone seems to be doing it. It can seem like just about everyone owns a blog today. However, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Inside the Writers Room with The Mindy Project

  
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  Photo credit: Kristina M/Twitter "Big, relatable things that happen in our dating lives" - thats what the writers of The Mindy Project think about when they pitch stories for the show, which just finished its first season on Fox. Last nights Writers Guild Foundation "Inside the Writers Room" event at the ...
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• Dialogue Only Has to Be True to the World of Your Novel

  
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  One of the more interesting parts of writing a novel is how much you come to realize how very different dialogue is than actual human speech. Ive tackled this on the blog before , and it was driven home for me when I was on a panel this past Friday at the Backspace Writers Conference. There was a question about how ...
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• Who is a success and who is a failure?

  
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  There are a lot of good comments under  Survivorship bias: why 90% of the advice about writing is bullshit right now . Here’s one from Thomas E: So, who is a success and who is a failure? I’ve watched traditional publishing for a long time, and I’ve seen some trends. More often than not someone takes ten ...
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• What writers can learn from Anthony Weiner, John Edwards and Mark Sanford

  
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  From The Channeling Author: As someone who has met and/or interviewed dozens of national politicians over the years, I want to tell you about the common denominator. (And no, it’s not infidelity.) Politicians all have something many writers need. Party affiliation doesn’t matter; they pretty much all possess a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Gesture Writing

  
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  From The New York Times: Five years ago, I walked into a third-floor art studio on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, climbed atop a wooden stage covered in stained padding and dropped my ratty yellow bathrobe. A panel of strangers asked me to pose, and then to freeze. I had never modeled for ...
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• Lazy Words Mean Boring Reading

  
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  When I edit a work in progress, I know when I begin to get restless that I’ve probably come across a nest of lazy words. Here are some lazy word indicators:These, this, those, thing, stuff, some…and the dreaded “to be” verb (was, were…) When I find several of these words on one page, it means the writer ...
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• What I Wish I’d Known

  
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  With graduations upon us, I’ve been thinking what advice I would give if I could go back 25 years and and give advice to myself as a newly minted college graduate.  I’d like to share the top 10: Don’t work for an idiot.  This sounds obvious, and yet it happens a lot because of the Read more...
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• Publish it Forward: Who decides?

  
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  From Grub Street Daily: Who gets to decide that you are a writer?  Who gives you permission? It used to be that writers would have to get through the gatekeepers in order to be considered legitimate writers.  If they didn’t manage that, then the next best thing was a personal testimonial from a trusted ...
  3 weeks ago

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