by Devi S. Laskar | May 23, 2012 | Uncategorized
There are two kinds of people in the world: the people who thought R.E.M.’s third album was titled “Fables of the Reconstruction” and the people who thought it was “Reconstruction of the Fables.” Here’s the thing: they both right, and they’re both wrong. The album had...
by Elizabeth | May 22, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
Today I finished the spell check on the latest revision of my novel and sent it off to my agent. Now I kind of want just to keep typing that sentence over and over again. I have this frozen elation—or is that terror? This morning over breakfast, I was reading book...
by Devi S. Laskar | May 17, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
I’ve been struggling with writers’ block lately and wondering aloud if I was ever going to get back into the practice of writing consistently – and even writing at all. I was gently reminded yesterday that writing is a PRACTICE. It’s something you have to do every day...
by Devi S. Laskar | May 17, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
13 Rules for Becoming a Published Writer 1. Read books like the kind you hope to write. Read, read, read. 2. Buy books if you hope one day to sell them. 3. As Al Capone said of voting: Write early and often. 4. Expect readers like you—as smart, as likely to buy...
by Devi S. Laskar | May 15, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
I’ve been attempting to finish my novel for years. I had ordered it so that it alternated chapters between the present and its dark past, and then another way so that it was all in the present with flashbacks of the childhood. Then I started to rewrite the whole...
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