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Get an accountant, abstain from sex and similes, cut, rewrite, then cut and rewrite again – if all else fails, pray. Inspire by Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing, we asked authors for their personal dos and don'ts
More tips!
Never use jargon words like reconceptualize, demassification, attitudinally, judgmentally. They are hallmarks of a pretentious ass.
This is pretty high-quality quotes! Worth reading.
Some really good advice from fiction authors like Zadie Smith and Neil Gaiman.
Ten years ago, my first novel Prep came out. Three novels later, here's what I've learned about the publishing industry and writing since then.
Things you need to know if you’re thinking of publishing a book one day!
An interactive look at how to create a great writing portfolio, from clippings.me founder Nicholas Holmes.
Didn’t think this was so important, but I’m seeing so many writers start a portfolio. We should jump on board!
The tips in this article are really good and eye-opening.
Dennis Lehane, author of “Mystic River,” gives some good tips to writers.
This is a great blog. I’m so glad I stumbled upon it. Some of the things on this blog, I reblog because it’s useful to writers - advice, articles, prompts, writing opportunities. It’s awesome.
A searchable database of small presses and literary publishers, including submission guidelines, manuscript needs, response time, and other details for fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.
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In one of my favorite Stephen King interviews, for The Atlantic, he talks at length about the vital importance of a good opening line. “There are all sorts of theories,” he says, “it’s a tricky thing.” “But there’s one thing” he’s sure about: “An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story.
Advice from the King.
Image credit If there’s one person we should all be taking writing advice from, it’s J.K. Rowling. Not only did she manage to write a book that spawned a series and a series of hugely successful movies, she transformed herself from a never-before-published writer into the first billionaire author on the planet. And all because …
“I just write what I want to write. I write what amuses me. It’s totally for myself.”
- J.K. Rowling
The only internship I did (besides on in high school) was between my junior and senior years of college, the summer of 2011, but it was the best thing I ever did for my “career” and having worked...
This is still the best advice I’ve seen so far. For writers reaching out for competitive internships, this is a good article to read!
We asked some of the most esteemed contemporary authors for any golden rules they bring to their writing practice. Here are Zadie Smith's
Rules for writers. The last one is so important.
i carry your secret
i carry your secret like an Egyptian antique it sits heavily on a shelf in my heart my thoughts become the dust against its delicate material I hold my breath. And I do not speak. I do not move.
I carry your secret like a loaded gun if I speak, I will hurt you. Them. Us. so I hold it in my arms like a sleeping baby and I do not speak. I do not move.
i carry this secret that you told me last night. you looked at me with teary eyes and said No one must know. When you cried in my arms, your insides thundered and on my shirt, i found drops of rain.
your secret is locked up in my cold-cave chest. i try to forget that i have it, but it howls when i am asleep. you trusted me with this secret. and i do not sleep. And i do not speak. I do not move.
i envelope your secret - or perhaps it envelopes me. every vein in my body works to keep it protected, all i become is a walking safe. Sometimes i want to cry, but I promised you, your secret will stay with me, and only me.
So I do not speak. I do not move.
Neil Hilborn’s “OCD” just became the first slam performance ever to top TEN MILLION views on YouTube! And it’s his birthday! Happy birthday Neil, and congratulations! To all of you who have been wanting to get his new book, you can get 15% off any order containing Our Numbered Days today at the Button website with the coupon code “happybirthdayneil”.
LOVE this poem
for lovers out there
How long is a generation these days? I must be in Mark Zuckerberg’s generation—there are only nine years between us—but somehow it doesn’t feel that way. This despite the fact that I can say (like everyone else on Harvard’s campus in the fall of 2003) that “I was there” at Facebook’s inception, and remember Facemash and the fuss it caused; also that tiny, exquisite movie star trailed by fan-boys through the snow wherever she went, and the awful snow itself, turning your toes gray, destroying your spirit, bringing a bloodless end to a squirrel on my block: frozen, inanimate, perfect—like the Blaschka glass flowers. Doubtless years from now I will misremember my closeness to Zuckerberg, in the same spirit that everyone in ’60s Liverpool met John Lennon.
Feeding that Zadie-smith-hunger
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6voLZDYgPzY)
