Monthly Archives: November 2008
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Any Given Doomsday, A Respectable Trade, The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, The Thirteenth Tale, Drowning Ruth
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Writing- Nathan Bransford - Literary Agent: Do You Suffer From One of These Writing Maladies? August 13, 2010[…]
- To achieve more: daydream more at Tobias Buckell Online August 6, 2010But as I’m learning from books, the idea that you should throw yourself against the wall over and over again is, as far as what scientists are learning about creativity, will net results, just not good ones. […]
- Dare to Be Stupid - Why I write girl heroes for the most part August 6, 2010[…]
- Editorial Ass: Moonrat's Rundown of Publishing Options August 6, 2010[…]
- ON WRITING FANTASY: The Plot Thickens August 4, 2010“Plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in.” — Elizabeth George “The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.” — Christopher Charles Herbert Lehmann-Haupt “Character is plot, plot is character.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald What happens next?!? In this third installment of an ongoing series I’d like to talk about th […]
- Nathan Bransford - Literary Agent: Do You Suffer From One of These Writing Maladies? August 13, 2010
- Misc.
- BBC News - Would more holiday be good for America? September 1, 2010Brits would never put up with the average American's nine days of paid holiday per year, explains Michael Goldfarb. […]
- Women Are Not Marshmallow Peeps, And Other Reasons There's No 'Chick Lit' : Monkey See : NPR August 26, 2010A recent debate over book reviews and the ubiquity of similar Brooklyn writers stresses the desperate need to put away the term "chick lit" forever. […]
- Op-Ed Columnist - America Goes Dark - NYTimes.com August 23, 2010With infrastructure and education crumbling, we’re on the unlit, unpaved road to nowhere. […]
- T&A on Parade August 16, 2010Last month we talked about honorary males: the idea that for a woman to be powerful, she has to be like a man. As I indicated at the time, that was meant at least in part as a lead-in to this month’s post, in which we look at the other side of the coin. The genesis of this post was a video on the blog Crazy Sexy Geeks, though the ideas that crystallized then […]
- What publishers can and should learn from "The Elements" - Tools of Change for Publishing August 13, 2010Theodore Gray, author/creator of "The Elements," shares his thoughts on interactivity in ebooks, why programmers should be treated like authors, and why he believes the print form will continue to exist for quite some time. […]
- BBC News - Would more holiday be good for America? September 1, 2010