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Duotrope: The Anti-Writer’s Market

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

Not to disparage a fine in-print tradition, but I’m fairly certain published writers tell other aspiring writers to pick up a copy of the latest Writer’s Market tome as some sort of initiation process. They slyly (forgive the adverb) hide their snickers and contempt of potential competition by directing the uninitiated to wade through a [...]

Contests Can Unlock Doors for Your Writing

Monday, October 13th, 2008

Writing contests can be a great way for an undiscovered author to get noticed, and potentially even start their career. For example, someone I know recently won third prize in a contest from WritingRoom.com for submitting a novel. For her prize, she had her book published, and they are helping her market it, and got [...]

Perfecting Prose Rhythm and Pacing

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Past perfect tense and passive voice have their places within the structures of the English language. Generally, those places are under the stairs or in the attic, in boxes, on shelves, way behind the adverbs. Key point: The more verbs used, the higher the chance for confusion, the higher the chance your prose is too [...]

Automated Content Will Unmake Existence

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Chess is one thing, but if we get to the point computers can best humans in the arts—those splendid, millennia-old expressions of the heart and soul of human existence—then why bother existing? Fortunately, computers have yet to match us in music or writing or dancing or even drawing—the lines are straighter, but that’s not even [...]

Amazon Is the New Oprah

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Every writer knows getting your book featured on Oprah (your presidential candidate, etc.) is the shortest path to bestseller. But Oprah’s so last century (and so your mother’s Oldsmobile). Online, an Amazon.com endorsement becomes the coveted limelight. I haven’t read David Wroblewski’s The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, but around 90,000 people have so far after [...]


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