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New feature: a Bestiary
Okay, so my plan is to gradually post entries on the Bestiary page for all the writers who’ve been kind enough/foolish enough to do drive-bys with me. This will be done as wit and time allow. Here’s one I prepared earlier …
In Life, it helps to learn to wipe your own backside
One of my major frustrations in the last fortnight has been someone who keeps coming back to me for the same information – which was given to her/him a couple of months ago. The revenant activity is not because s/he can’t
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Highly Useful Post on Time Management …
… by Maggie Stiefvater (via Tansy Rayner Roberts). I like this post because it’s sensible and it puts responsibility for the writing, or lack thereof, squarely where it belongs – with the writer. Even if you don’t have kids, you can still find ways to waste time and make excuses for
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The Writer
What is expected of you when you ‘become’ a writer? Or rather, you’re published – you’ve received an advance, got copies of your book sitting on the shelf, people are asking for your autograph, and dear old Aunt Enid has stopped muttering about you being a drain on society and isn’t it time you got yourself a real job,
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The Book Oven – Interesting coloured …
Hugh McGuire and Stephanie Troeth’s project – in beta phase:
Book Oven helps teams of people turn manuscripts into finished books, and then publish them. It is built for writers, editors, proofreaders, designers and small presses.
The web has given us the ability to make and distribute art and writing to a global audience
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In which …
… the very funny, very writerly Lee McGowan says nice stuff http://leemcgowan.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/no-words-necessary/
We’re all Fate’s monkeys.
Is the Publisher Always Right? Part Deux
Sometimes when I have a thought it dies of loneliness. Just like when I posted Q. Is the Publisher Always Right? some time ago. So, calling this ‘Part Deux’ may be over-stating things a bit seeing as how there wasn’t really much to the first post. *sigh*
What originally started me on the train of thought was contemplating the tension between a
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