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Age and novel-writing
Just read a post by John Scalzi on why it seems that so few novelists are published in their twenties. Or are “kinda old,” as he puts it. Ahem. Must be a young punk writing.
As an old and creaky scrivener who refuses to yell at kids to get off the lawn but who does [...]
The effects of writers’ preoccupations with constant marketing
Just found a nice post by Jason Pinter (here) on writers having to spend so much time marketing their work. And really, on having to spend so much time and life energy marketing, instead of just writing whatever it is their mission in life to write about. I added a comment and thought it might [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Interview: Dan Baum on Freelancing
My friend, author and freelancer Linda Formichelli, just posted a long interview with Dan Baum, former New Yorker staff writer and freelancer. Linda had asked me for questions to put to Dan and so the interview is a blend of her questions and mine. She posted the interview on her blog and by permission (Linda’s [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Doctor Mustard, In the Consulting Room, With Words
As a kid I was fascinated by a comic strip about a bumbling cop, Fearless Fosdick, most famous for his habit of pursuing bad guys by “firing a warning shot into the crowd.” In one series of strips, there was a sinister murder weapon that was killing people off — a sheet of paper [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Competition and writers
My friend, author Jennifer Lawler, tweeted something this morning about an agent’s blog, and I started looking at his site. He made a comment in there about writers who read agents’ blogs as having an advantage in the writing world, and his blog site lists a whole bunch of agents’ blogs. So I thought, maybe [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )A daily workflow for novel-writing
I’ve begun to immerse myself in my second novel about my heroine detective, and so am thinking again about the daily workflow. Generally, the main part of the process that interests writers is the question of whether to have some kind of daily writing quota, most often a word-count based quota. But I [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Writing to Transform the Conservative Imagination
Last night I watched the old 1969 musical Paint Your Wagon, which featured one of the very few positive portrayals of a polyamorous relationship in any popular film. Since as a psychologist I happen to know something about the research on poly relationships, namely that they can be healthier in many ways than traditional nuclear [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )The Conventionality Trap and Writers
This evening watched a swell old flick, Bell, Book & Candle, in which a witch played by the beguiling Kim Novack (and/or her cat — one can’t be totally sure) manages to seduce and beguile poor innocent little Jimmy Stewart and make him fall in love with her. Well, things go as they do and [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Lame-O! blog!!
I suspect I’m not the only one who has to struggle to get the hang of blogging. I have seen writers on some forums I read who say they just don’t get writing for blogs at all. (Their reasons are really about working for free, when as writers we have to work very [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Catching Up With Your iNsides
What language shall you make love in? It can seem like an odd or impossible question, but it gets right to the heart, I’m realizing, of certain kinds of writing and reading experiences. Particularly fiction, or so it seems at first glance.
Someone who’s spent time in a dark room with a lover who [...]
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