Tag: novelists
group name: starvingartists
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August 26, 2007 02:57 PM EDT --
It’s happened to many of us or to a colleague in the business. If you’re a writer, you know someone whose career took a stutter step when their publisher went out of business. Perhaps it was . . . more
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July 07, 2007 10:32 PM EDT --
I finished the next chapter on my current WIP and took a break to check my email, gather and all those yahoo groups I'm connected to. I love reading all the advice, listening to success stories, . . . more
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August 21, 2007 02:16 PM EDT --
Well, they probably won't happen. I know these things happen to a select few and I hope you've either been one of them or will be one day. But for most of us, me for example, here are some things . . . more
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March 20, 2007 07:16 PM EDT --
Forward Motion is the best message board I've found for novelists who want to join an enthusiastic, helpful writing community of working professionals. Though there's a big emphasis on science . . . more
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August 04, 2007 04:49 PM EDT --
I heard some interesting things on one of my writers' groups. A few of the members said their local libraries offer some titles in ebook form. Do any of you have that in your local library and how . . . more
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August 03, 2007 10:28 PM EDT --
I think every beginning novelist dreams of being able to write full time. No 9-5 job, sit at the computer anytime you want. Wear old sweat pants around, drink coffee from a big wide mug and send off the . . . more
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September 26, 2007 11:09 PM EDT --
I used to really not like Donald Maass, an author, literary agent and lecturer on the art and craft of writing. He had a habit of saying things that annoy writers, like, “Who cares?” and “How . . . more
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August 03, 2007 02:58 PM EDT --
I felt a need to make a clarification because of some things I read. My recent release, THE GREATER GOOD, is out in ebook format. It is not self published. I am paid royalties and have invested none . . . more
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August 04, 2007 06:25 PM EDT --
I hope you read my first rumor that has been confirmed as true by at least one member of gather. Well, here's a second part. I also heard that Borders will soon begin selling downloads in their brick . . . more
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August 06, 2007 03:21 PM EDT --
One of the biggest thrills I've received as a writer so far has been receiving email from people who have read my book. Their words are so encouraging. Isn't that one of the reasons we write, to . . . more
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October 21, 2007 12:38 AM EDT --
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
–Ernest Hemingway
I nearly forgot a career . . . more
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August 03, 2007 10:20 PM EDT --
Okay, fellow writers, I needed to get up from my writing desk. I didn't meet my personal writing goals for this week and should be sitting there instead of being on gather. Instead I got a class of . . . more
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December 12, 2007 07:56 PM EST --
2007, like every other year, is the year of the book. Fully confident that none of my friends or family read my blog (really, they don't), I'll post a partial list of some of the books I've . . . more
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August 26, 2006 09:22 PM EDT --
(This is an article I wrote a few years back, but I think it still has some helpful hints in it.)
Get Your Foot in the Door: The Advantages of a Networking Writer
by Cindy Appel
http://www.cindyappel.com . . . more
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August 09, 2007 02:14 PM EDT --
I've never met a writer who wasn't a voracious reader also. The love of the written words runs deep in those who dare to put their thoughts out in the public domain. As I've progressed . . . more
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January 29, 2008 10:25 AM EST --
Readers often tell me they wish they could visit Willow Lake, because it's such a beautiful place in my books. Well, thanks to my publisher, here's your shot. They're giving away . . . more
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February 16, 2008 11:30 AM EST --
In his watershed writing memoir, On Writing , Stephen King discussed his process. Early on, when I'm getting the draft down, I write with the door shut.
I'm active in two very dynamic . . . more
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August 25, 2006 08:31 PM EDT --
An excerpt from The Curse of the Manuscript Eating Slushpile Monster
by Cindy Appel
http://www.cindyappel.com
Have you ever been on a job interview? Have you ever attended a business convention? . . . more
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September 27, 2006 05:41 PM EDT --
How does an author dress? Suit and tie? Tweed? What about an erotic-romance author...
Yes, that's the subject of this rant—how does an erotic-romance author dress? And how does she behave . . . more
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August 02, 2007 08:32 PM EDT --
Like many of the writers I know, I still must work that day job to pay the bills. And like others, I also have children, very busy needful children. There are so many demands on my time, often the thing . . . more
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