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Jan.11.2013
Just like you are not your weight, you are not your Amazon sales ranking.
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Jan.10.2013
Talk to other writers the way you would have other writers talk to you.
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Jan.09.2013
Setting a goal doesn’t ensure that you’ll reach it, but if you set one, you’ll be a lot more likely to get somewhere.
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Jan.07.2013
The period pre-pub of a book is so busy and filled with anticipation that pub date itself can be an enormous letdown, provoking despair – “With so many other books on the shelves, how will readers ever find mine?”; not to mention, “Is this all there is?” – but you’re smarter than that and you don’t...
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Jan.05.2013
Unless your goal is to write something completely vanilla, your writing is bound to offend at least some people, so stop worrying about it so much and just write.
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Jan.04.2013
Novelist is the only career I know for which you’re regularly expected to be grateful – “just for having had this great opportunity!” – no matter how much everyone else fucks things up.
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Jan.02.2013
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, one of the biggest bestsellers of 2012, currently has 5425 reviews on Amazon with an average 3.5-star rating – see, you don’t need every reader to love you, you just need a lot of readers to read you.
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Dec.28.2012
At times you may feel as though you’re screaming in the wilderness, but that’s not true at all because other people care, they really do, and of course they’re listening, and...I’m sorry, were you saying something?
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Dec.26.2012
Sometimes, it’s enough to merely think you’re making forward progress.
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Dec.23.2012
Highfalutin or pyrotechnic feats of writing aren’t worth the effort put in if you can’t make the reader give a damn.
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Dec.22.2012
The copyeditor’s job is to prescribe the letter of the law; the writer’s job is to preserve the spirit of her intent.
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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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