Category: encouragement
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On Plagiarists and “Real Writers”
Holly Lisle in her writing tips newsletter today wrote about plagiarism and being a “real writer.” I put “real writer” in quotes not for sarcastic […]
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Gotta Write Who You Are
In How To Write Page-Turning Scenes, Holly Lisle tells the story of a writer who lived SF. He decided to write a fantasy-comedy, just because […]
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Negative Reviews May Be Good for Your Book
Thanks to Bill Morris of The Millions for this link to a paper, published in Marketing Science (v. 29 n. 5, September-October 2010), “Positive Effects […]
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Rejection Sucks
This morning, I replied to Sarah Allen’s latest post, about how very many editors have been rejecting her stories: I have been telling myself for […]
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Not Taking Criticism So Seriously
The stories we write are part of us. Like children, we nurture them and raise them. We identify with them. Then we push them out […]
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Top 10 Reasons (Not?) to Be a Writer
Alan Baxter posted this list last week, and it’s still making the rounds. “And before anyone accuses me,” Alan writes, “of being all jaded and […]
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The Myth of the Thick-Skinned Novelist
Some years ago, when I was a fledgling storyteller still puzzling through the basics of what makes a story work (or not), I frequented a […]
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The Best Thing You’ve Ever Written
Yesterday, I posted a status on Facebook about my new novel I’m working on: “This is a tear-jerker. Possibly the best story I’ll have written […]
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