The Book Writing World wants to know about your writing life–your challenges, your needs, and maybe how we can help. So we are taking a survey of writers and folks interested in writing. In exchange for a few minutes of your time, we will pick one of you wonderful people, at random, to give a […]
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Love After Love The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine.
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Literature is all, or mostly, about sex. – Anthony Burgess Tonight I am teaching a class on writing sex, and I’ve culled some quotes as a way to begin to think about it. My own thoughts, in brief, are these: 1) Sex, like dialog, must do more than one thing, and must do it in
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Writing a pitch is not just a tool for selling your novel. It can help you write a better book, too. And that, in turn, will do more for selling your book than the greatest pitch in the world. I am working on a deep last pass of my novel-in-progress before sending it out to
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I am reading through my own manuscript and making a list of research and writing I need to do. I am also getting a stronger sense of the structure, and will probably deposit the draft, piece by piece, into Scrivener. In particular, I am looking at how I will interweave the back story. The question
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Three new things coming to the BWW and a new episode of Writing Truths!
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The marvelous Jacqueline Luckett was a student of mine many years ago. Now she’s a published author with a two book contract with a MAJOR New York publisher! Here we talk about writing under contract v. writing that first book when you don’t know if it will sell. We talk about writing groups, motivation and
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VIDA, an organization founded in 2009 to “explore critical and cultural perceptions of writing by women through meaningful conversation and the exchange of ideas among existing and emerging literary communities” has posted The Count, a tally of the women reviewing, being reviewed and being published at various top literary magazines and the like. The numbers
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As we enter “process” week at the Book Writing World–the place we start each quarter, because you can never be too familiar with how you best work and how to support your own success–I’m looking at the many faces of effective writing habits, rituals if you will, that I’ve seen blossom over this year in
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I belong to a network of women writers in and around Northern California called Word of Mouth Bay Area. This group is bursting with talent and generosity, and I wanted to share some members’ recent successes with you–and point you to some great reads–and celebrate the fecund creativity of the Bay Area! Today’s blog describes
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