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Sep.03.2011
This is actually a word I saw on http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/08/amazons-new-author-feature-launches-and... in which the truly horrendous trend of total access to writers by (and total pablum-feeding to) readers is touted as a good thing.
Essentially, authors, reduced to caged and perpetually...
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Apr.12.2010
I just returned from the AWP Conference in Denver, which was a rich and intense experience that's still washing over me. The AWP (the Association of Writers and Writing Programs) puts on a yearly conference where writers and creative writing instructors from North America gather. Over three days,...
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Dec.16.2009
Here are a few of my new favorite toys, procrastination tools, and helpful resources for writers (though not in that order) …
Seattle-based writer Angela Fountas runs Quoterly, a wonderful site that “hopes to inspire you to forget every rule you’ve ever learned about writing, because the writing...
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Oct.20.2009
The always-introspective Jane Friedman of Writer's Digest has come up with a column on "3 Sure-Fire Ways to Insult Someone in Publishing."
After you read what she writes, if you're published, you may wince if (like me) you recognize yourself in some of what she says. But then again,...
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