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  • Wonderful essay!  I don't mind those 'on-the-spot' conversations.  Mama raised me to b...ay be completely different once I actually sell a book.  I could go into panic mode. But then... that's what the...
  • Hi Victoria, I'm very interested in this book as I teach a Craft of Fiction course at Boston University and am always chasing after good texts. Is this the book you're "counting down" toward? Thanks, Michelle
  • Love it, Tayari. Just this weekend I gave myself a stern talking-to and actually wrote up a writing schedule ... and just this afternoon when I finished work I read an...
  • What I'm hearing here is great. It seems like most people are adapting NaNo to meet their own needs. This is my basic point about process. Like @Kimberly said, the que...
  • I love the notion of celebrating failures. What a hard lesson, what an important one!  You encourage me in my own novel-writing venture.  (almost 10 years and counting...
  • My first novel took at least ten years not counting incubation time. Truly my whole life until the moment I externalized the story--autobiographical as so many first fictions are. The time it takes depends so much on what is cooking. It really does.
  • Hello Sandy - good luck with the writing.  This is my first year, day 15 and just starting to write for today.  My word count so far is 30254  and counting...
  • Here's a paradigm: some movies you rent/stream, others you buy the DVD because you know you want to see them again. My point? If the book is a classic, or one I'm sure...
  • In order to utilize a third-party book distributor, the author or publisher has to giv...nnel isn't going to be any use. The real problem with the traditional business model is that it's 80 years old an...
  • Thanks for posting this.  What a tangled web!  Publishers need to get it that readers care about quality. But let's face it, they buy what they think is "hot," too and...