How does one discuss a book in 140 characters or less? I just came across an announcement of a publisher establishing a Twitter Book Club to help spread the …
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I came across an article this morning about Borders financial difficulties in the Detroit Free Press, a newspaper that is struggling, too. It got me thinking …
Open Veins
Are personal essays inherently solipsistic? I'd like to take credit for that perfect word choice, but the credit belongs to my writer-friend, Leslie Berlin, …
My Two Minutes on Radio: Writing for Sound
There’s nothing like reading on radio to make you focus on how your writing sounds. I spent some time at the KQED studios Tuesday afternoon, recording an essay …
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The Secret: You sit down and you start and that's it.
I came across this interview with Elmore Leonard today. It's old - from 1996 - but I'd never seen it. My favorite lines: "I am what you call an overnight …
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The 46th Time is the Charm
Yet another story of persistence paying: Kathryn Stockett, author of The Help, was rejected by forty-five agents before her bestseller found an agent home. …
Summerset Maugham Rules for Writing
I saw this quote the other day, and couldn't resist sharing it: "There are only three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are." - …
From On Becoming a Novelist, by John Gardner
Some words of wisdom from John Gardner, whose The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers is the writing book I most often turn to. This one, though, …
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Hemingway's Advice to Writers
For a new slant in the new year right, I've decided to mix author guest posts with advice from other writers on how a writer might ... do whatever it is we do. …
If You Think Continuing to Rewrite is Wasted Time…
...take a look at the winner of this year's National Book Award for fiction: Shadow Mountain. It's a reworking of three novels previously published by Peter …
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