HOOK. ME. WITH. CHAPTER. ONE! I’ve done this post once before, but thought the message bears repeating again. I read 100K books in about a day. Rarely more than two. That’s not a brag, just a statement of fact. If, however, it takes me two weeks to read the first 19 pages of a book, [...]
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On Writing
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August 11th 2010
@mincarter wrote a very good blog post on the “how-to” of writing. I’m going to send you over there for a gander. One thing I would add though is that writing is a solitary profession for the most part. Like Mina, when I first started authors higher up on the food chain were kind to [...]
Filed under On Writing Posted on January 26th 2010
One of my favorite author buds, @LexValentine, loves to tell people that I’ve “shredded” one of her stories during a critique. Despite many times suggesting she use a different word, that’s the one she sticks to. I would say that I don’t necessarily shred her stories, but I do pick them apart if something doesn’t [...]
Filed under On Writing Posted on July 23rd 2009
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