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Add To The Pile Of Crap?
A nice discussion of The Precarious Portentous Perils Of Self-Publishing. via Write for Your life.
The Island of Misfit Writers
“A winner never quits, and a quitter never wins, but someone who never wins or quits is an idiot.” A lot of people will tell young writers, “If you keep at it, eventually you’ll get published.” If your current book … Continue reading
Don’t Forget To Splice Your Commas
A while back I tried hanging around on some of the Internet’s writing forums. Not because I really expected to learn anything myself, though you never know–as I talked about earlier I’ve been at this for a while. Rather, I … Continue reading
Give ‘Em The Heater
In some ways, writing fiction is like being a baseball pitcher. (And in one very important way it’s completely different, but we’ll get to that.) Sometimes you have to get something by the reader, and you have a variety of … Continue reading
What a Long, Strange Trip it’s Been
I started writing in my senior year of high school. I had told myself stories for many years, tracking them in my head, but that was when I began to write down something that I intended for other people to … Continue reading
Once More Into The Breach
Hey there. I’ve swept away the old nineties-riffic site that used to be here and put up this new thing in its place. This is where I intend to ramble more-or-less aimlessly about writing, sharing such thoughts as I whimsically … Continue reading
