Ever noticed how the longer you go without writing, the harder it becomes to write? I’ve noticed it with other things too. Pretty much anything, if you get out of practice, let it slide, forget to be diligent, or let life whisk you away from it, will cease to pull at you. Overcrowded, overbusy, overtired, overeverything, you become one with
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Dear writer: Thanks for sending in your manuscript and welcome to training camp. For the next few weeks, I’ll be your coach. You may have had many coaches before, but I want you to focus on those who helped you improve. What did they do that was special? My goal is to increase your chances of getting a hit every
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Since many of you are frequenters of The Master’s Artist and Faith in Fiction, I probably don’t need to mention that Mark Bertrand is helping to vivisect Dave Long’s debut novel Ezekiel’s Shadow all this week. And since there really isn’t much going on in the world or the blogosphere, you may as well go over and get a piece
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So anyway, about changing publishers. As an editor, it’s pretty significant. Like going to play for a different baseball team you used to consider your competitor. And everything’s different. You use different lingo, wear different uniforms, and stretch out differently. There’s different expectations and rules of conduct and you don’t really know who your friends are and whether they’re threatened,
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TV writers and award shows have complained about all the reality shows. And truly, they’ve been justified for most of it. The shift toward increasingly violent and immoral popular public “reality” games will eventually get out of hand in the new Rome. But until then, there’s one Sheri and I never miss. Sunday nights on ABC. You watch it and
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