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All Play And No Work…
This is a great piece by Neal Pollack about writing and The Shining (book and movie), and it also touches on the “calm the fuck down” parenting method, which we have adopted in our household as well:...
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Hard truths about writing…
This is really such a great post by Chuck Wendig that every aspiring writer should read: 25 More Hard Truths About Writing And Publishing. Pursuing writing as a career is so full of contradictions....
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Negotiating with the dead: Margaret Atwood on what it means to be a writer
The short book, Negotiating with the Dead, is a collection of six lectures Margaret Atwood gave on writing. This is not a typical writing handbook, dispensing now-cliched advice like “write what you...
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Writing advice from Ursula K. Le Guin
The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination as a collection is something of a hodgepodge, but there are many valuable nuggets to be mined, so it’s a worthwhile...
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Exploding More Writing Myths « terribleminds: chuck wendig
Another great piece by Chuck Wendig myth-busting the writerly myths: Crotch-Punching The Creative Yeti: Exploding More Writing Myths « terribleminds: chuck wendig. My favorite myth is, of course, that...
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Self-publishing’s quality problem…
When I pick up a book in a bookstore — which, more than likely, is a book issued by a publishing company, also known as a “traditionally published” book — I can usually assume that book will meet my...
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Experiments in book discovery… (part 1 of many, I hope)
Yesterday, I wrote about self-published books and quality, and I lamented that it is very difficult for the ordinary reader to find the quality reads in the gigantic pool of self-published books. Most...
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More is less…
I am currently taking a course in editing, and I thought this gem shared by the professor was worth saving: “More is less.” Cut as much as you can without losing meaning and you may have it. If you...
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Quality of self-published books, revisited…
Recently, I wrote about the issue of quality in self-published books when compared to traditionally published books. I’m not the first or only person to have written about this (see here and here and...
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Present vs. past tense: Which to use in your writing
Over the past few years, I have noticed that more and more writers are using the present tense rather than the past tense to tell their stories. I think this trend started in young adult fiction, but...
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