...pieces. After class he said, "Aim high."
And the lack of a lawn? That would become part of my first novel. I've written several novels now, prize-winning plays, contributed to antholo...
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...always written. From the very first days at school when I was four, writing stories for 'Composition' class, I knew I was going to be an author. Winning a competition in the local ne...
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Lovely post and a wonderful memory for you. Viet Thanh Nguyen who won the Pulitzer Prize and the Edgar for his novel The Sympathizer said lovingly in an interview that it took winning the Pulitzer for his first novel to win his father's approval for his chosen vocation.
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...work is doing out in the world. There are some incredible awards out there that self-published authors can submit to, and do, and when they start winning more, and earning cred from t...
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...onger. I, like you, even stuck a book manuscript away in a drawer for 20 years because an editor didn't like it...now it's my best-selling, award winning book (Dinosaur Lake). Over th...
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...ill not mention, but one of my first and only really good creative writing teachers at Grub Street Writers' Center in Boston, who is also a prize winning novelist, was thrilled for me...
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...erwards I felt very self-conscious about my mother's published perspective of me and my brothers. It was all positive, mind you, and her book The Winning Family was a tacit brag about...
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...bedroom!" she quipped.I'll admit that's one of the things I get out of winning awards: A much-needed ego bo...Maria, awards do so much more. By applying for -- and not even always winning -- awards, I've been publishe...
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...credibly painful and humbling. yet I learned things I'd never---in my twenty years of writing, receiving positive feedback from my writing group, winning an award---known. or even, so...
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...become increasingly useless, outdated, not needed, they will melt down down down and face the huge numbers of our faces, standing there, already winning...is this a clear vision or a...
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