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A brief anecdote (and more) from Neal Stephenson
It’s over a decade old (2004) but a Slashdot post by acclaimed sci-fi author Neal Stephenson (left) is worth repeating:[…]
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There’s still time (just) to enter Bath Spa University’s Novel in 25 Words competition. Entries close on at 23.59 on[…]
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Y’all know about n-grams, right? Wikipedia nails ’em: … an n-gram is a contiguous sequence of n items from a given[…]
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Next year is the 30th anniversary of Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus, and the twenty-first book in the series. With Rather[…]
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The problem — and the delight — of the English language is that there is no such thing as Standard[…]
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According to Guinness World Records, L. Ron Hubbard is credited with having the most published works by one author (1,084).[…]
Read moreElmore Leonard: 10 Rules for Writers
1 Never open a book with weather. If it’s only to create atmosphere, and not a character’s reaction to the[…]
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Easy reading is damned hard writing. Nathaniel Hawthorne …I have this one nasty habit. Makes me hard to live with.[…]
Read more171 words of wisdom every writer should read
A couple of weeks ago, Joe Konrath published a blog post entitled “The Path to Success”. It’s not a long[…]
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