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6 Reasons to Join the Authors Guild
If you make all or part of your income from writing, you should consider joining The Authors Guild, an organization that has been advocating on behalf of authors for more than a century. There are many benefits to joining the Guild, but here are six that make membership a winning proposition for authors at any…Continue reading 6 Reasons to Join the Authors Guild
A Handful of Glorious Pages
Are you a novelist, a short story writer, or both? I’m currently reading Ann Patchett’s essay collection, This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage, which chronicles Patchett’s journey to becoming a writer. There are plenty of quotable passages in the book, but one of my favorite has to do with the short story form: Love…Continue reading A Handful of Glorious Pages
3 Essential Tools for Writers
The only way to be a writer is to sit down and write. It doesn’t matter how many terrific notebooks and apps you have, or how gorgeous your desk looks, or how supportive your writing group is: if you don’t actually sit down and do the work, you can’t really call yourself a writer. But…Continue reading 3 Essential Tools for Writers
Book Writing – Should You Outline Your Novel?
People are always asking me if I outline my novels before I begin. Never. I work associatively and thematically. For example, The Year of Fog is a novel about a missing child. But to say it’s a novel about a missing child is somewhat misleading. The major plot line of the novel is the search…Continue reading Book Writing – Should You Outline Your Novel?