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Years ago I read Betsy Lerner's The Forest for the Trees: An Editor's Advice to Writers and loved it. So when contributing editor Erika Dreifus reported on her Practicing Writing blog that Lerner, who now works as an agent, was blogging, I wanted...
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Writers don't just write; they do a lot of editing, too. Besides revising their own work, a lot of writers edit the work of others. With that in mind, here are a few great resources for editing for grammar and style: Copyediting newsletter: This bimonthly...
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Here's some food for thought from one of The New Yorker 's star writers, Malcolm Gladwell, bestselling author of The Tipping Point , Blink and Outliers . He's become famous for his ability to spot fresh stories for lay readers in the social...
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The Toronto Star published a quick but interesting interview with Nora Roberts that's full of interesting tidbits. For example, did you know she first wrote in 1979 when she was trapped at home in a snowstorm? She picked up paper and pen and started...
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While many literary journals are migrating to the Web and adding blogs and even podcasts, one journal is embracing technology—and its effect on our reading habits—to a much greater degree. In fact, you can choose to read Electric Literature...
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It might seem romantic to be part of a writing couple. You can swap work and give each other feedback, commiserate over rejections, and more generally share your love for language. Then again, it might sound like a nightmare. If you're full-time writers...
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My home laptop died last week, after weeks of slowing down and almost daily "blue screens of death." The computer, a Dell Inspiron, lasted about eight years, and given the phenomenal changes in performance and technology since 2001, that Dell...
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Our latest special publication, The Writer's Guide to Getting Published , has just been mailed to everyone who purchased it in advance. Newsstand copies should start appearing in bookstores in the next couple of weeks. Getting Published offers 92...
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Just as we got our December issue out the door to the printer came word that our How I Write subject for that month, Kim Barnes, had just won a prestigious honor for her novel A Country Called Home (Knopf). PEN USA, the West Coast center for the renowned...
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Some of us on staff were shocked to hear of Conde Nast's decision yesterday to shutter Gourmet magazine. I can't say I'm a foodie—my cooking skills are rudimentary at best—but I love to page through the magazine, especially for...
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Another workweek is drawing to a close and, as usual, I can't imagine writing or doing anything that requires fresh brain cells on Friday night because I have no creativity left. That got me thinking about how writing is a serious business. There's...
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As someone who is always searching for new books to add to a reading list that will never be finished, I often turn to literary prizes to see what reading treats I might add to the list. The month of October is already a bonanza with two prestigious literary...
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I know, it's only Halloween, but the holidays are rolling up quickly and if you have a writer on your gift list, you might want to browse the Persephone Books Web site for the perfect book-gift. Persephone Books reprints what it calls "neglected...
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Well, the last time Thanksgiving approached with its promise of full tummies, I remember encountering what I felt was an egregious example of overstuffed dashes-i.e., way too much material stuffed between the dashes in a sentence. It was unreadable and...
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As detailed many times in The Writer , the means that fiction writers use to get a story going range all the way from detailed outlines to basically nothing at all—just winging it, you might say. The latter approach of a non-method method is practiced...
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