Naomi, the Internet is still the Wild West for writers. It's my experience that there is little you can do to force anyone to pay you, give credit for your work, etc....
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Florinda, Thanks for your concise and thorough review of the so-called Franzen Feud. I am with you in every respect. As a reader I gravitate to fiction that mirrors th...
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Thanks Kamy for sharing your wishes and encouraging ours. Here's mine:
1)to find myself continually delighted by the act of writing and befriending the work of writing...
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Your post Mother, Stranger, struck such a chord with me. I was a writer from the age of eight when i won a PTA writing contest for a short story that was chosen to be...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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!
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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...
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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...
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