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Feb.25.2013
The Moment I Realized People Didn’t Have To Like Me To Like What I Wrote: In high school, I wasn’t so much unpopular as I was nonpopular. Look through my high school yearbooks and, except for class pictures, it’s hard to find evidence that I even existed in those years. That’s OK – being on...
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Feb.24.2013
The Moment I First Realized I Could Write: I was 12 years old, in 8th grade. My teacher gave us an assignment in which we each had to use three elements the class had picked at random in a story: a priest, a nurse and a camel. I set my story on a desert island. The camel was sick, the priest...
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Feb.23.2013
The Moment I First Tried To Write Poetry: The poem was called When We, and it began: When we made love, I felt I was on fire/You filled me up with a great desire/When we wrote the song, with a guitar and a pick/You know, the one about the prostitute who couldn’t turn a trick? It continued in that...
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Feb.22.2013
The last tip: Always remember, the only person who can ever really take you out of the game is you.
If you've enjoyed these 365 tips, feel free to tip me by buying one of my books. Happy Trails.
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Feb.21.2013
Knowing how to make an exit is almost as important as knowing how to make an entrance and knowing how to end a book is almost as important as knowing how to begin one – screw up the latter, and readers may not stay with you; screw up the former, and they may throw your book across the room.
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Feb.20.2013
“Don’t dream it; be it.” ~ Dr. Frank-N-Furter, The Rocky Horror Picture Show
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Feb.19.2013
“There is a gap between man’s powers to conceive and his ability to achieve that can be bridged only by desire.” ~ Khalil Gibran
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Feb.17.2013
If you spend more time on marketing than you do on writing, you have to wonder just what the hell you’re doing here.
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Feb.16.2013
It is unlikely that you will succeed at first, but unless you try and try again, you will never know if the story might have ended differently.
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Feb.14.2013
Before you disdain the genre someone else writes in, look in the mirror and ask yourself the following question: “Did the book I wrote cure cancer?” – literary snobbery doesn’t become you.
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Feb.13.2013
Whenever possible, resist the temptation to behave as though any writer who doesn’t agree with whatever you say about writing/publishing is just too stupid to live.
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Feb.12.2013
If you don’t respect what you do – your time, your effort, your results – how can you expect anyone else to?
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Feb.10.2013
Never let it be said of you that you never met a simile you didn’t like.
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About Lauren
Before becoming a published novelist, I was an independent bookseller and buyer, a Publishers Weekly reviewer, a freelance editor, and a window washer. My first book was published in 2003 and by the end of 2012, I will have had 28 books published. My most...
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