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December 17th, 2010 by me
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1st BOOKS is hosted by
Meg Waite Clayton
bestselling author of
The Four Ms. Bradwells
The Wednesday Sisters
and
Bellwether Prize finalist The Language of Light (all available from Random House/Ballantine)
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- Literary Envy February 22, 2012
- Alex George: Starting Over February 22, 2012
- Eleanor Brown: When Your First Book Is Not Your First February 22, 2012
- Dickens Quotes for Writers, on the Occasion of his 200th Birthday February 22, 2012
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Previous entries
- Literary EnvyFebruary 18, 2012 in A Few Things I Hope Will be Helpful to Authors, Quotes on Writing
- Alex George: Starting OverFebruary 15, 2012 in Author Stories
- Eleanor Brown: When Your First Book Is Not Your FirstFebruary 8, 2012 in Author Stories
- Dickens Quotes for Writers, on the Occasion of his 200th BirthdayFebruary 7, 2012 in Meg's Posts, Quotes on Writing
About 1st BOOKS: Stories of How Writers Get Started
If you think writers are born rather than made and brilliant writing is recognized immediately, those rejection slips for your novel—or story or nonfiction query, or (heaven help you) letter to your own mother—can seem a daunting thing. The truth is getting started as a writer takes hard work, persistence, and a bit of luck.