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Author has advice for writers: Attenberg’s book aims to keep you motivated to write
You need someone like Jami Attenberg, of Buffalo Grove, Ill., in your head. She has this new book, “1000 Words: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Creative, Focused and Productive All Year Round,” which is sort of the advice book equivalent of that friend who cheers beside a marathon route, tossing out enthusiasm and Gatorade.
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Sam Anderson on writing and drawing - Austin Kleon
The thing that unites good writing and good drawing — authentic writing and authentic drawing — is the exploratory line.
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Lisa Gardner: 10 Lessons I Learned in 30 Years of Writing Suspense
When people first meet authors, they always ask the same question—how did you get started in this business? I’m a bit a rarity. Wrote my first novel at seventeen, sold it at twenty, hit the bestsel…
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Carter Wilson Interviewed Hundreds of Writers — Here’s What He Learned From Them\
I launched my podcast Making It Up nearly three years ago with the goal of interviewing writers not for any particular work of theirs, but to talk to them about their lives.
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Ales Kot, the writer taking comic books to mindbending new dimensions
He has only been in graphic storytelling for three years, but already the Czech-born writer has produced several influential series for the biggest publishers – and his latest is set to reinvent crime noir
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Margaret Atwood: ‘People bond to the books. Nobody wants my shoelaces’
People see my head on a book and attach a tall body to it. The image of somebody that you have accorded status to in your mind is a large one; the Greeks always made the gods quite tall. I’m short. Shorter than you think. I threw amazingly scary parties for my little sister. She was born on 30 October and her birthdays were a hot item. I’d paint my face green, turn out the lights, make everyone get under the tablecloth...
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A Portrait of the Writer as a Single-Minded Slob
Authors like to present our lives and our work as something glamorous. We invoke our Muses, we sip tea, we show off our vintage notebooks and typewriters and pens
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It's going to be okay.
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Should Writing Be an Art or a Career?
Novelists have a choice: stay in and write or get out and promote.
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Quentin Tarantino's Visual References
Created for Press Play/IndieWire's "Genius Directors in Three Minutes" series: It is a well known fact that Quentin Tarantino is a self-proclaimed cinephile. But the writer/director's love for cinema is most obviously expressed through his own films. In addition to showing his characters spending a great deal of time discussing cinema, Tarantino's films are jam-packed with homages and visual references to the movies that have intrigued him throughout his life.
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The Greatest Books of All Time, As Voted by 125 Famous Authors
“Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work,” Jennifer Egan once said. This intersection of reading and writing is both a necessary bi-directional life skill for us mere mortals and a secret of iconic writers’ success, as bespoken by their personal libraries. The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books asks 125 of modernity’s greatest British and American writers — including Norman Mailer, Ann Patchett, Jonathan Franzen, Claire Messud...
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Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America: WRITER BEWARE®
Writer Beware’s mission is to track, expose, and raise awareness of the prevalence of fraud and other questionable activities in and around the publishing industry.
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“Holy smokes, this stuff is all real?”: How I get my best ideas for thrillers from the good ol’ U.S. government - Barry Eisler
With all my novels I like to drop fictional characters into real situations -- and the NSA is always ripe territory.
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The 5 Most Delightful Sci-Fi and Fantasy Authors, Off-Book
J.K. Rowling, Neil Gaiman, Maggie Stiefvater, Rainbow Rowell. You might like their work, but would you have a beer with them?
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The Unintentional Last Words of 13 Famous Writers
Including James Baldwin, Lou Reed, Nora Ephron, and David Foster Wallace.
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On Totems
By Sarah McCarry. (Sept. 8)
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We Deliver Custom Essays Online| Authenticity Is Granted
Order essays online and they will be written by a member of writing department that entails more than a hundred of professional writers. Absolutely all orders
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Scene Editor Jim Ridley Dies at 50
Jim Ridley — the editor, heart and soul of the Nashville Scene, a film critic with few peers, and one of the most beloved and...
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My writing day: Hilary Mantel
Some writers claim to extrude a book at an even rate like toothpaste from a tube, or to build a story like a wall, so many feet per day. They sit at their desk and knock off their word quota, then frisk into their leisured evening, preening themselves. This is so alien to me that it might be another trade entirely. Writing lectures or reviews – any kind of non-fiction – seems to me a job like any job: allocate your time, marshall your resources, just get on with it.
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Stephen King Used These 8 Writing Strategies to Sell 350 Million Books
The best-selling novelist shares his secrets to selling so many books. Stephen King is one of the most prolific and commercially successful authors of the past half century, with more than 70 books of horror, science fiction, and fantasy to his name. Estimates put the total sales of his books at between 300 and 350 million copies. 16 years ago, King shared everything he knows about writing in a book that instantly became a bestseller: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft.
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