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Here at WriterMag.com, we’re happy to offer another online-exclusive column, this one dedicated to keeping you inspired. Brandi-Ann Uyemura ( at left ), a freelance writer and contributor to The Writer magazine and this website, has been blogging...
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We’re excited to introduce a new subscriber benefit on WriterMag.com: our weekly writing prompt . Beginning today—and each Friday—you’ll find a new writing exercise from Heather Wright ( at left ), a freelance writer, teacher and...
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If you’re looking for a thoughtful gift for a recent graduate, consider Ann Patchett’s What Now? , based on her commencement address at Sarah Lawrence College, her alma mater. In the slim volume, she describes her own initial frustration when...
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About 11 years ago, when I found Betsy Lerner ’s The Forest for the Trees: An Editor’s Advice to Writers on the shelf of a local bookstore, I snatched it up and took it home. After reading it, I just knew I had to work in publishing. I initially...
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You’ve no doubt heard the advice that a writer shouldn’t quit his day job—not only in the context of a perhaps-not-so-promising manuscript, but also because few writers today can support themselves solely on profits from their writing...
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Last night at Boswell Book Company in Milwaukee, I attended a reading by Nicole Krauss, author of the novel Great House, which was recently nominated for the National Book Award. I read her bestselling novel The History of Love a few years ago and adored...
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Sometimes the solitude of writing itself can get to you. Too many hours alone at your desk. At those times, you might look forward to your next meeting with a fellow writer to commiserate over rejection letters and receive encouraging feedback on your...
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