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Category: For Writers
Writing isn’t easy …
Writing isn’t easy and, even after you’ve been doing it for a few years, you’re still a novice. If you[…]
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Using zombies to spot the passive voice
Writers are generally encouraged to avoid the passive voice because … well, it’s passive. Take sentences like: My car was[…]
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Things you don’t know you know
“Adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun. So you can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife. But if you mess with that word order in the slightest you’ll sound like a maniac.”
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Neil Gaiman on Piracy
“I used to get really grumpy with people because they put my poems up, they put my stories up, they put my stuff up on the web. And I had this belief, which was completely erroneous, that if people put your stuff up on the web and you didn’t tell them to take it down, you would lose your copyright.”
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Quotes : Rebecca West
“If one is a woman writer there are certain things one must do. First, not be too good; second, die[…]
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So, how much have you written today?
According to Guinness World Records, L. Ron Hubbard is credited with having the most published works by one author (1,084).[…]
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How to write a novel in 10 days
Several years ago, US author Dean Wesley Smith wrote a novel in 10 days — and documented the process on[…]
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Had a bad review? Check these out!
Even the esteemed New York Times doesn’t always get it right, as these blasts from the past show … “Shall[…]
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Stay away from traditional book publishing
Dean Wesley Smith knows a thing or two about writing. He’s a prolific, with almost two hundred novels and hundreds[…]
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