In Part 1 of this little series, "Manuscript Puberty," I shared the experience of sending a first draft of my new novel, The Four Ms. Bradwells, to my editor, …
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The All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published, Part 1: Manuscript Puberty
I just got my first peek at the likely cover for my new novel, The Four Ms. Bradwells, along with a description of what the book is about. The two together got …
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Richard Bausch on Showing Up for Work
I had the great pleasure of paneling with Richard Bausch - who is not only a wonderful writer, but also a kind and generous one - at the AWP conference last …
Poetry Tuesday: The Page Davidson Clayton Prize for Emerging Poets
One of the many things I had in common with my mom-in-law, Page Davidson Clayton,was a love of poetry. So when, after Page's death, Mac and I were looking for …
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Professional Writer or Amateur?
I had the great pleasure of paneling with Richard Bausch - who is not only a wonderful writer, but also a kind and generous one - at the AWP conference last …
Tim O'Brien on Tenacity and Stubbornness
I read Tim O'Brien's amazing short story, "The Things They Carried" in the first writing class I took. I've read it many times since, but I wouldn't need to …
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Mark Twain on "Damn"
Think how much easier this writing advice is to execute in the days of word processing global changes: "Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write …
Rules for Writers (from Some Amazing Ones)
I just came across the most wonderful "Rules for Writing" series at the guardian.co.uk site, thanks to a mention of it in yesterday's NYTBR's "Inside the List". …
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J.K. Rowling: The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination
This video, though a couple years old, came to me today: J.K. Rowling giving a commencement speech at Harvard, on having "failed on an epic scale" within 7 …
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"The Ghost within Every Experience"
From Mark Strand's "On Becoming a Poet" in The Making of a Poem, an idea for what a poem may be, which I think also applies to fiction: "A poem may be ... the …
