May 23rd, 2010 | Posted by: Christopher Meeks
Up-and-coming writers want to hear how down the line things will get easier. Heck, I want to hear that. Thus, when I sent my current novel-in-progress, Ten Days to a Bad Habit, to my agent Jim McCarthy in New York, I wanted to hear how my first mystery was an amazing delight, staying true to [...]
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April 19th, 2010 | Posted by: Philip Persinger
Premise:
There is entirely too much detail and description in prose; much more than in life. When you walk in and out of a room in life you remember only a very small collection of things. Usually by the time you leave a room you are trying to remember something that happened in the previous room.
Moving [...]
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March 25th, 2010 | Posted by: Moriah Jovan
I have a lot of fun with my imaginary friends, thinking of them as if they’re real, telling my tax deductions about mommy’s imaginary friends and laughing about what they do with Dude, talking about them to other writers who like to talk about what their imaginary friends do, too.
We talk about them as if [...]
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March 22nd, 2010 | Posted by: Kristen Tsetsi
Life is short, and the business of self-publishing, while completely joyful, can also make you want to stab yourself in the throat - but in the end, what’s most important is to remember why we write.
Or rather, why we don’t.
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March 6th, 2010 | Posted by: Philip Persinger
What follows is a letter I wrote to a friend about what art means to me in a changing world and why to pursue it even when there is no sustainable future in it:
I’m probably the last guy to ask for advice. I don’t see the glass as half empty or half full. I see [...]
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March 4th, 2010 | Posted by: Andrew Kent
We’ve all watched newspapers, magazine, journals, music, and television undergo radical surgery as they’ve been shoved into the digital pipes ala the poor victim in “Fargo.” Over the past two years, books have been thrown into the digital chipper, and with similar results — prices for e-books have been cut to the bone, digital distribution [...]
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February 28th, 2010 | Posted by: Christopher Meeks
Short fiction is on my mind as I’m working on a novel. Because the first things I published were short stories, and because I’m now writing novels, I’m seeing how very different novels are from short stories.
It’s a huge challenge for a short story writer to move into being a novelist. My first novel, “The [...]
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February 20th, 2010 | Posted by: Kristen Tsetsi
“Inside the Writers Studio,” is a video blog series created by R.J. Keller and Kristen Tsetsi. You can find “Inside the Writers Studio” (a PaperRats production) on its YouTube page, be a friend on Facebook, and/or follow on Twitter. Watch the first episode, “Raving Reviews”:
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February 11th, 2010 | Posted by: Philip Persinger
In Book Two of the Tales of Dunham series, Moriah Jovan confirms that she intends to stay just enough out of genre to confuse everyone. Having read both books, I would call them either (Insert your qualifier here)-Romance Novels or Mormon Bodice Rippers.
The good news for a manly man like me is that the book [...]
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February 10th, 2010 | Posted by: Philip Persinger
Neither an English major nor a reader of Joyce Carol Oates and not having spent a day at a writers’ workshop in Iowa, would someone please explain to me why the modest adverb is anathema to the educated class.
I ask this humbly.
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