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  • Niki, I'm so inspired by you! I've supported three Kickstarter campaigns and just recently our City Club did a special on Kickstarter for small business. I'm in the sa...
  • First of all, hope you're feeling much better by now, Kamy. As for writing what we don't know about, I recall wondering how Tolstoy could write so convincingly about a...
  • From George Saunders' interview in last year's NYT magazine: "...the process is still a noble one--the process of trying to say something, of working through craft iss...
  • Great advice...I always feel guilty. Was supposed to start novel on May 1st and well...not much has happened. I am taking a class starting next week that i hope will force me into more concrete efforts!
  • Thanks for sharing this piece Brooke. It is a very important topic. It's great that you participated in a panel that addressed it in a public forum. The more people ta...
  • Thanks for asking, Michelle! Yes, it is. I've been blogging on the craft of fiction for the past year, and I'm using my posts from the first half of 2009 as the basis...
  • Thank you for writing this. I really needed to hear it. Right now I'm ailing from an illness that has drained my physical and emotional strength for exactly a week. I...
  • Greetings from Tucson, where we've spent the last five and a half days glued to the TV & phone and we've comforted friends, held vigils, and attended memorial serv...
  • I am always amazed to read about authors kicking out several books a year. I wonder how they do it. And yes, I am jealous, as well.  My first draft took me three years...
  • I had a similar experience in that, just as my first bookwas starting to attract re-newed interest (was even placed on the schools reading list in my country) the publ...