(note: I’m using ‘manifesta’ instead of ‘manifesto’ because I like the womanly sound of it. indulge me.) One of my favorite bloggers, Kelly Diels writes a bang-up post about what she would do if she was a new writer named Dorothy who’d just published a book about her adventures on the yellow brick road: So…
May 27, 2010
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Writers, like seducers, aspire to get outside of themselves and into the perspective of another person, to gather information they can use in their campaign. They develop a ‘cool eye’: the ability to step outside of their own ego and exist within the moment, to see things as objectively as they can. Storytelling, like seduction,…
May 18, 2010
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Write what you know. This has always been problematic advice for me. I started writing fiction when I was very young – I wrote my first novel when I was 14 and it almost, almost, got published several years later – and I could sense from my obsessive reading that writers were supposed to know…
May 14, 2010
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1 A writer’s idea of a writing career has to change. Jane Friedman said this in a webinar I attended recently, and I’ve been mulling it over ever since. I’m also wondering if a writer’s idea of a brand has to change. I wrote about the importance of developing your author brand in my last…
May 11, 2010
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