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Narrative Writing
This is a brief description of narrative writing including additional resource links.Writing speed
"Tim Pratt once mentioned he’d prided himself on being fast until he met me at Clarion, and I also once prided myself on being fast until I met Tim at Clarion." Tobias Buckell's two cents.Stupid Writer Tricks: 10 Writing Tricks to Avoid
"What I’m trying to say is this: If you find yourself using one of these tricks, give your story a close look to see if there’s some other problem you’re trying to compensate for."How Much You Should Write Each Day
"This is actually pretty simple. For someone who wants to be a professional writer (i.e., wants to make a living at this crazy business): a) It's better to be fast than slow; b) It's better to beWriterspace.com - Websites for Authors; Communities for Readers - websites, bulletin boards, chatrooms and net events
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"I'm not saying, go forth and write joyfully atrocious bestsellers. I'm saying, open the door that excites you, not the one you think you have to." Advice on writing 'from the heart', via AlSo What Do You Do, Ken Auletta?
"The New Yorker's media writer spills the beans on exactly how he does his job" A great insight into the 'modus operandi' of a top-rank journo. His note-taking system alone is a work of obseFail better
"What makes a good writer? Is writing an expression of self, or, as TS Eliot argued, 'an escape from personality'? Do novelists have a duty? Do readers? Why are there so few truly great novels? ZA Selection of Obscure Robert Anton Wilson Essays
Does what it says on the tin. Fnord!Jorge Luis Borges: This Craft of Verse
"Here are excerpts from two of the six Norton Lectures that Jorge Luis Borges delivered at Harvard University in the fall of 1967 and spring of 1968." Only snippets here, sadly - gotta buy tDon't quit your day job
"So just to review, that's: A best-selling author and genuine tech celebrity writing a thoughtful essay nearly every workday on a top-50 blog for an audience of around 30,000 people/day. And theScrivener for OSX
Designed for use by writers of all kinds, Scrivener is a virtual writing studio that integrates the processes of outlining, storyboarding, research and writing. It's a notebook.Big Books Hit Japan's Tiny Phones
"The first mobile phone novel was written six years ago ... but the trend picked up in the last couple years when high-school girls with no previous publishing experience started posting stories[Scott Westerfeld's] Character Names
"...Uglies takes place 300 years in the future. Names probably won’t be the same as now. So I needed something that’s not a current name, but that doesn’t make your brain fritz when you read it.&