Feb 21st, 2010
Elmore Leonard’s Ten Rules for Writing Fiction
This has been passed around a bit already, but I’m going to post it here in case you haven’t seen it yet: Elmore Leonard’s Ten Rules for Writing Fiction These are pretty hard to argue with. The article also features several other writers’ lists — most of which aren’t as good as Leonard’s, but there’s [...]
Feb 12th, 2010
On Rejection
Well, that was a waste. I went to a chiropractor for a whole month and — even though he was very clearly a Scientologist — I was not once asked if I would like to learn more about the science of the mind. Honestly? I’m offended. I suppose I should back up a bit. Never [...]
Nov 13th, 2009
Submission
I had a lot of questions last week in workshop about the submissions process. It’s tough to talk about submissions in the last five minutes of a class, so I put together a little primer and emailed it to everyone. Now I’m reprinting it here. I’m not the world’s authority on literary submissions; I’m just [...]
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