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Interesting posts about writing – w/e October 9 2009

Oct. 9th, 2009 at 6:57 AM

Here’s my selection of interesting (and sometimes amusing) posts about writing from the last week:

Acquiring An Agent katatomic

Creative. Period. (Kathryn Craft)

Why publishers should focus on the misses instead of the hits (Chris Anderson)
[An old, but interesting article from Publishers Weekly]

How to REALLY help an author out jimhines

Making Taste Overly Personal (Nathan Bransford)

10/7/09 - Writing Words of Wisdom - Spending Your Words Wisely damcphail

Foreshadowing: Satisfaction Vs. Enjoyment peadarog

What Should You Write in the Bio Paragraph of a Query Letter? (litagentguide)

checklist for how to screw up your chances at publication beth_bernobich

Writerly Thinks: 2 Tanks of Gas and a Sharpened Quill lonfiction

Too Young to Publish (Justine Larbalestier) – A Golden Oldie, courtesy of black_faery

Should You Pay Someone to edit Your Work? (Nathan Bransford)

Dammit Skywalker, look inside yourself m_stiefvater

Slush Stats jmeadows

Bad Book Publicity jimhines

The Perils of Searching for Publishers on the Internet (Victoria Strauss)

If you have a particular favorite among these, please let the author know (and me too, if you have time). Also, if you've a link to a great post that isn't here, feel free to share.

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lonfiction wrote:

Oct. 9th, 2009 11:55 am (UTC)

Thanks for the link!

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lonfiction wrote:

Oct. 9th, 2009 11:59 am (UTC)

And other links, too, btw. This makes my cruise-thru of blogged writing content go a lot quicker.

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jongibbs wrote:

Oct. 9th, 2009 04:22 pm (UTC)

You're very welcome :)

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zweipunktnull wrote:

Oct. 9th, 2009 11:59 am (UTC)

As a companion piece to "Too Young to Publish" I recommend another golden oldie: John Scalzi's On Teens, and the Fact Their Writing Sucks.

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black_faery wrote:

Oct. 9th, 2009 12:26 pm (UTC)

Hahahahaha!! Yes! Thank you for that.

As a teenager, I a) thought my writing was FAN-BLOODY-TASTIC, and b) I should be published by the time I was 20. God forbid, if I was as old as 25.

I hit a period of 'oh. Duh. I suck.' in my late teens. And now I am gradually getting more confident in my abilities and might find a home for a short story in the next year. (That's the goal, along with editing the novel) Novel publishing is a nice dream to entertain in my spare time, but I don't hold out much hope for it these days :-)

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jongibbs wrote:

Oct. 9th, 2009 04:26 pm (UTC)

Lol. Thanks for the link. It makes me glad I didn't start writing until I hit my forties :)

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