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May.12.2011 Writery: Burning the Dynamite at Both Ends Crunch time is a natural state for writers. The clock is ticking down, deadlines are looming, schedules are growing short, things are piling up—and you just have to crank out the last few thousand words hell or high water. It’s an exciting, even melodramatic time, filled with ups and downs,...	Oct.26.2010 Advice for young journalists--Part 1: The Essecne of Interviewing First in a series on advice about writing, publishing, etc., for writers and journalists. I get asked about writing and reporting every week, and I've been promising to get some ideas down for students and aspiring writer/journos. As I create them, I'll stash them all on the new Advice for...
Sep.12.2010 So You Want to Be a Writer? To begin with, let me say that I don’t necessarily consider myself A Writer, though I try my best. Despite my recent novel publication, when I sit at my computer I suffer the same anxieties of lowliness, stupidity, sniffling, and bad page days as I did before. I’m not sure these ever go away. So...	Aug.18.2010 Writing advice In recent weeks, gifted with the luxury of time and a lack of commitments, I have had plenty of time to spend time working on my current project. Because this lack of commitment and expanse of time coincides with long-suffering boyfriend being at home, it often also means that I take myself off to...
Aug.13.2010 5 Mistakes for Writers to Avoid ·Don’t sell yourself short. It’s okay to self-publish, write for free or get pennies for each internet view if you need to start or get credentials, just don’t stay there to avoid rejections or working with editors. ·Don’t do it alone. Sometimes you’ll need encouragement and sometimes you’ll...	Aug.13.2010 5 Mistakes for Writers to Avoid · Don’t sell yourself short. It’s okay to self-publish, write for free or get pennies for each internet view if you need to start or get credentials, just don’t stay there to avoid rejections or working with editors.· Don’t do it alone. Sometimes you’ll need encouragement and sometimes you’ll...
Jun.21.2010 Working Writers Interview: Writing, Crackpots, Felicity & Barbara Pym, What Success Means and more.. Q. What’s the most interesting book you’ve ever read? A. Among the dozens (literally) tied for first place in the “most interesting” category, I would include Einstein’s Dreams, by Alan Lightman, AS Byatt’s short story collection Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice in which the story Cold is...	Apr.29.2010 How Do You Write a Book? “Do we have to go to Europe this summer?” a kid asks his mother. “Shut up and keep swimming!” she replies. This was a story my dad liked to tell, and it’s always seemed to me to describe perfectly the experience of trying to figure out how to write a novel while you are in the process of...
Apr.26.2010 Creative Karma – Do You Have It? In the writing life, there are certain intangibles you can’t explain to other writers until they’ve experienced it for themselves. One of those intangibles of the writing life is what I call creative karma. Simply put, creative karma means what you give out, you’ll get back. Giving support and...	Apr.06.2010 Answers to writing questions I answered about 50 questions on Twitter today (scroll to look for posts on afternoon of 3/29). Most were about writing process, some were about my books. Next Twitter Live Q & A is scheduled for 4pm (EST) April 13th. Just sayin'.

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