I know most people tell you you should read a lot and get writing partners etc. But I think every single writer should take some basic business and sales courses. As a writer, you are really the sole proprietor of a business. Helaine Becker
Month: July 2012
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I had often heard people talking about how too many varied dialogue attributions (remarked, demanded, cried, interrupted, etc. instead of a simple “said”) and attributions modified by adverbs weaken your text. I didn’t really see it, until I was revising this book. Then I finally understood! Rather than saying, “Close the door,’ she scolded angrily,”… Continue reading Untitled
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Be yourself. It may or may not work out well, but it’s your best option. Jurgen Wolff
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I don’t want to trust my storytellers. I want a storyteller to show me that I can’t trust him….I want him to do things to the character and the storyworld — and, by proxy, to me the poor little quivering audience member gnawing his fingernails down to the bloody quick — that aren’t right. I… Continue reading Untitled
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Energy creates energy. It is by spending myself that I become rich. Sarah Bernhard (quoted in http://www.happinessprojecttoolbox.com/)
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The way to write a thriller is to ask a question a the beginning, and answer it at the end. Lee Child
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We don’t see the world as it is, we see the world as we are. Lisa Cron http://bit.ly/NPFavt
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The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. Carl Jung
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‘‘Inspiration is a word used by people who aren’t really doing anything. I go into my office every day that I’m in Brighton and work. Whether I feel like it or not is irrelevant.” Is it the place he’s most comfortable? ‘‘There are other things in my life that make me hugely happy. But as… Continue reading Untitled
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His prose, like the snow of good King Wenceslas, is deep and crisp and even, neither over-florid nor pedestrian… James Harpur, judge of the 2012 Frank O’Connor short story award, commenting on Nathan Englander’s stories.