From the category archives:

Being a Writer

Publishing’s suicide

December 5, 2009 Being a Writer

Jesse Kornbluth from PW:

Book publishing has been trying to commit suicide for all the decades I’ve been writing, and now it’s finally getting some traction on that project. Its latest folly is ironic: one of our most antitechnology businesses now places unrealistic hopes on technology as a savior, a textbook case of an American [...]

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Interesting (failed?) experiment in microserialization

December 3, 2009 Being a Writer
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From Galleycat:

Earlier this week, the literary journal Electric Literature launched a “microserialization” experiment by publishing a new story by Rick Moody(pictured) on Twitter–co-publishing the story on other Twitter feeds, including the Vroman’s Books feed. Jacket Copy summarized the frustration that some Twitter users felt with the simultaneous delivery: “In the past, having bookstores, bloggers [...]

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Yay for impartiality in book reviewing!

September 15, 2009 Being a Writer

Now where’s my free gift?

(cross-posted via Posterous)

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I just wonder…

April 8, 2009 Being a Writer

A. O. Scott, writing in the NYT:
“And just as the iPod has killed the album, so the Kindle might, in time, spur a revival of the short story. If you can buy a single song for a dollar, why wouldn’t you spend that much on a handy, compact package of character, incident and linguistic invention? [...]

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Good Advice, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Tony_D

March 19, 2009 Being a Writer

write, originally uploaded by delgrosso.

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Basking in Fabulosity

January 11, 2009 Being a Writer

Colleen Wainwright (aka the Communicatrix) is rocking the Internet these days. Or maybe she’s always rocked the Internet and I just figured it out. At any rate, she’s on one of her patented “21 Day Salutes,” which you should definitely check out if you have any interest in changing something about yourself in the new [...]

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Motivating Creative People

January 8, 2009 Being a Writer

Awesome pdf download:
Free E-book – How to Motivate Creative People (Including Yourself).
(via Tim @badbanana)

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My Future Author Award

January 7, 2009 Being a Writer

What you’re looking at here is one of the most important artifacts of my life. I have had it with me as long as I’ve lived on my own, and even while it languished in a box in my parents’ basement it was never forgotten.
It’s a classic scenario, probably as common today as it was [...]

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