Tag: writer’s bane
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What Kind of Writing is Right?
Today I’m ranting about writing advice truisms. Again. This week’s target: “Serious writers write.” This one bugs the shit out of me. It’s true but useless, like saying serious breathers breathe. Serious writers write, yes. So do whimsical writers, depressed writers, lackadaisical writers, young writers, old writers…it isn’t the how or the when or the why or the […]
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My First Ads: what worked & what didn’t.
Authors need readers. If I wanted to get philosophical I would say readership defines the difference between writing and authoring, but that’s another post. This one addresses a more practical issue: being seen. The publishing world is full of people crying their wares. Call it marketing, self-promotion, advertising, outreach, networking, or whatever; success is all […]
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Chip off the Ol’ Writer’s Block
The information in this post comes from an SFWA panel on writer’s block I attended in June 2015. If you’re a speculative fiction writer and can afford to attend the SFWA weekend in June 2016, I highly recommend the experience. I learned a lot in this session and others, and I met a lot of […]
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Gardners & Architects & Bugaboos, Oh, My
Are you an outliner or a plot-on-the-fly kinda person? Is one harder than the other? Here’s one take: GRRM makes pantsing (or gardening as he calls it) sound easy. Lazy, even. This irks me. (He considers himself a gardener by the way.) He is doing his own work a disservice by belittling the effort that […]