For many years people have been predicting the death of literature because the stats on the reading public show fewer and fewer books are being sold because fewer people are reading. For an author it’s a bit depressing. However, you might find this article provides some hope: http://www.newsweek.com/id/136961. Generation R (R Is for Reader) The
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I’ve posted two new writer’s lessons that discuss how emotion works and the essential parts of story.
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Watch an interesting Borders interview with Meyer about Host and Twilight. The thing I keep seeing in her interviews is that this woman follows her passion. She follows the story that wows her. It’s nice, of course, that millions of fans want to share that wow with her. But I don’t know that a writer
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Where: Salt Lake City at CONduit Date: Saturday, May 24, 2008 Time: 2 PM – 4 PM I had tons of great feedback from the last workshop. It seemed to be helpful to quite a few people. There are a number of other good workshops for writers going on before and after mine that you’ll want to look into as
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I’ve experienced yet again the miracle of manure, of starting from scratch, and following the zing. This last week I’ve been rewriting a beginning to a novel. It’s a bit tricky because I can’t just rewrite it without constraint. Such a rewrite would cause massive changes to everything else in the book. In fact, a
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