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This series of posts will turn into a book called Killing the Top Ten Sacred Cows of Publishing later this fall with an introduction. And th

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“The way to survive as a creative person in a capitalist marketplace is to have a really good and positive relationship with your own skill set,” Palumbo says. “The love should be between you and your creative endeavors, you and your skill set. That’s where the love should be.”

Depression, anxiety and feelings of “powerlessness” and “loss of identity” are taking hold during the entertainment industry’s ongoing work

#writing #mental health #creativity #Old but good

"It used to be fun talking about our favorite books and films, and having spirited debates with fans who saw things different… but somehow in this age of social media, it is no longer enough to say “I did not like book X or film Y, and here’s why.” Now social media is ruled by anti-fans who would rather talk about the stuff they hate than the stuff they love, and delight in dancing on the graves of anyone whose film has flopped."

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To hear an audio version of this post, click here. I had a shocking experience this past week, and yet the experience shouldn’t have been sh

"I do love the world we’re in now. But it is astonishing to me how much work—work I’ve been attached to, involved in, loved, admired, and was inspired by—is either down to fewer than 50 available copies or is gone forever."

#Writing #Writing business #Books #Out of print #Kristine Kathryn Rusch

It's Valentine's Day. Can Mysteries Contain Romance? Terry Odell It’s Valentine’s Day, which probably brings to mind flowers and chocolate,

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"To date, the four of my books that generated the most reader mail on publication are also the four that continue to bring the most mail year after year: Watchers, Fear Nothing (and its sequel Seize the Night), From the Corner of His Eye, and Lightning. If I had accepted the common publishing wisdom that readers are sheep who prefer to graze on the same flavor of grass, I would have written far different novels from those I delivered.

Had I written those stories instead of what I chose to write, sales of my books might not now be nearly three hundred million copies worldwide—and without a doubt, I would not have been as happy at the keyboard as I have been these many years.

Readers are not sheep. They are wolves, filled with curiosity, adventurous, always hungry for a tasty treat with at least a little substance to it.

The readers I know and love, the kind of readers to whom I owe my career, are more likely to say “woof” than “baa,” and not just because I sometimes write stories with dogs in them. Thank God you’re out there. If my writing career had failed, I would have made a lousy plumber; if I’d taken up carpentry, I’d now have six instead of ten fingers, and everyone would call me “Stubs.”"

-After word of Lightning by Dean Koontz

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Rejections Mean Nothing… Sending stories to editors is a game, one worth winning if editors start buying your work. It is fantastic free adv

#writing #Rejection #writing advice #Submitting stories #Dean Wesley Smith

What Do You Do With All These Suggestions? To answer the question bluntly… You write the next story. None of these 20 or so observations are

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By John Gilstrap On Monday, Sue Coletta wrote a wonderful piece on how to write a dance scene. As I read it, I realized that a) I've never w

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Character Issues… I am reading slowly through all the Pulphouse submissions. So if you haven’t gotten anything from me yet, don’t worry. Got

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I had a shudder moment yesterday. While researching something else, I read a New York Times interview on leadership with Gina Centrello, pre

"What most writers need is to believe in their own work. The writers need to finish a first draft, spellcheck it, and hand it to a trusted first reader who is not a writer.

Let me repeat that. The last thing you want is a writer as your first reader.

A writer will critique. A reader will tell you if the book is a good read or not.

Will the reader be able to tell you how to fix the book? Hell, no. That’s not a reader’s job."

#writing #Kristine Kathryn Rusch #writing advice #first reader

by James Scott Bell @jamesscottbell I love my home town (although the relationship is strained these days). I love classic film noir shot on

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A Series of Posts to Get Ready for the New Year… (I first did a version of this post in 2012, then brought it forward and updated it for 201

#writing #fear in writing #new year #goals in writing #dean wesley smith

by James Scott Bell @jamesscottbell What is the most important thing your novel must accomplish with the opening pages? A gripping first lin

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The Shadow is multifaceted, amorphous and difficult to define exactly or specifically. It is a force, a concept, a construct, an archetype,

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Time Warps and the ING Construction Terry Odell UPDATE: My audiobook narrator, Steve "Captain" Marvel was unable to respond to comments on t

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