Image via Wikipedia 7,300 days. That’s about how long ago I got the best writing Advice I ever received. Advice so simple, so powerful and so profound, that every time I think about it, it humbles me. I’ve never been able to follow it completely, and understand completely that this is the single most important [...]
Rogue’s Gallery CD It was hard not to start this review with some totally lame-O pirate cliche. I first heard about this disc on NPR, and knew immediately that I had to have it. Basically, at the urging of Johnny Depp and Gore Verbinski, decided to try to find actual sea chanteys to use in [...]
No Plot? No Problem! By Chris Baty This weeks book is all about Motivation and Discipline. Chris Baty is the founder of the NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Moth writing competition. Basically, this book is all about overcoming writier’s block, fear of failure, and thinking you stink and getting your first novel finished faster than you [...]
Recently in the NY Times, Mark Helprin asked the question, A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn’t It’s Copyright? The argument he makes is simple: If I invest in and develop real property, I and my heirs own the rights to that property until such time as we sell them. Intellectual Property, on the other hand, [...]
The Golden Pencil Who:http://www.thegoldenpencil.com/ What: Freelance writer Blog with daily Craigslist newsletter Where: Scours national Craigslist listing for writers’ gigs. Why: The blog itself is pretty standard stuff, but did I mention the daily newsletter? How: Free.
The Weekend Novelist By Robert Ray One way to sell a lot of writing books: Promise that your typical wannabe hobbyist writer, the guy who just can’t get it written because of job, school or family will finally, once-and-for-all be able to get his book written using your fool-proof, easy-to-follow- guaranteed plotting-drafting-revision system. Then there’s [...]
