Bingeing Again, But Writing? Still Not So Much
It's my baby step before trying something similar (minus the writing) but much more hardcore and drastic. Something that quite simply I find terrifying because I often find that when I spend that much time with myself and nobody or ...Editing Makes a Huge Difference
As I wrote before, most first drafts are pretty shitty. It’s the following step, editing, that turns that raw material into something worth reading. And sometimes it takes a lot longer than the actual writing. ... Book #48, How To Become A Famous Writer Before You're Dead
D: I picked this up in Borders, and it has single-handedly caused me to get back into writing and has seen me through the intensive rewrite of what I think is my best novel. I would read How To Become A Famous Writer Before You're Dead ... Stephen Hunt's The Court of the Air
Hunt: I’ve had short fiction published in magazines as early as 1990, and I was writing professionally before that for computer and RPG magazines while I was at college. For a long time my day job was as an editor, web site manager and ... Before I go
misc.writing: Before I go. Setting Goals and Deadlines in Editing
This is something I've never done before: work on a deadline. Generally, in writing, I just write when I want to. Now, I've got something of a schedule just by nature--I tend to write for so long each week, not by personal mandate, ... Students
When I judge a contest, a shocking 2/3 of the writers don't heed this -- they shoot themselves in the foot, and their writing errors get them rejected before their story is able to hook me. They may have the best story on the planet but ... Before I turn in
I just want to go over what I accomplished in my writing world. On Tuesday night I had my writing habit class at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. One suggestion that hit home was not write before . . . Zell Miller Part II
I guess this is a companion piece to Bob's post (sorry Bob - I started writing it before I saw yours). I, too, read the NY Times article and I heard a great story about this on NPR yesterday that really ticked me off. ... Why I Think Filmmakers Should Think Carefully Before Distributing ...
I've just posted a guestblog entry at Mike Peterson's blog, PATCHWORK EARTH, on why I normally don't upload my own short films and other productions online, and go for the perceived 'obsolete' traditional methods of distribution ...
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