Rejection slips are part of a writer’s landscape. All authors get them at one time or another, and they usually[…]
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Rejection slips are part of a writer’s landscape. All authors get them at one time or another, and they usually[…]
Read moreIt’s over a decade old (2004) but a Slashdot post by acclaimed sci-fi author Neal Stephenson (left) is worth repeating:[…]
Read moreThere’s still time (just) to enter Bath Spa University’s Novel in 25 Words competition. Entries close on at 23.59 on[…]
Read moreY’all know about n-grams, right? Wikipedia nails ’em: … an n-gram is a contiguous sequence of n items from a given[…]
Read moreNext year is the 30th anniversary of Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus, and the twenty-first book in the series. With Rather[…]
Read moreThe problem — and the delight — of the English language is that there is no such thing as Standard[…]
Read moreAccording to Guinness World Records, L. Ron Hubbard is credited with having the most published works by one author (1,084).[…]
Read more1 Never open a book with weather. If it’s only to create atmosphere, and not a character’s reaction to the[…]
Read moreEasy reading is damned hard writing. Nathaniel Hawthorne …I have this one nasty habit. Makes me hard to live with.[…]
Read moreA couple of weeks ago, Joe Konrath published a blog post entitled “The Path to Success”. It’s not a long[…]
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