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Janet Maslin of The New York Times offers a great article on recent “guilt-free” beach reads . She calls summer “the time to stop lying about what you read for fun.” With that in mind, we at The Writer drew up a list of our own...
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Some leads you just can’t resist. One of my favorite magazine writers, Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down , has a good one in the latest Atlantic Monthly. In an article titled “The Enemy Within,” Bowden takes a detailed—and...
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There were a couple of interesting pieces on the evolving nature of books and publishing today. The first, by Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg in The Wall Street Journal , looks at the mushrooming effect of digital books on Barnes & Noble and other retailers...
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I suspect many readers of The Writer have a problem with increasingly crowded bookshelves. This crowding poses two options: Either continue to increase the quantity of your books and find ever more shelving, posing storage and, occasionally, marital challenges;...
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Now that The Writer is on Facebook , I was thinking about Facebook’s new “Like” designation, which has taken the place of the “Become a fan” option. The reason for changing to “Like,” according to Facebook, is...
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My sister-in-law, an avid skier and mountain climber who’s living in Switzerland for a year, recommended the movie The Eiger Sanction for a good laugh. In case you aren’t familiar with the film (and I wasn’t), it stars Clint Eastwood...
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I just finished watching Marla Miller’s quick query critique online, featured in the May newsletter of Marketing the Muse . Since I’ve had the pleasure of being a guest in Marla’s excellent query writing workshops at writers conferences...
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I think I’ve blogged twice in the last year or so about one of Wisconsin’s fine authors, Michael Perry, author of Population: 485 , Truck: A Love Story and Coop , and I can’t resist another entry after reading the morning paper today...
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When looking at rules for writing, remember that one size doesn’t fit all. My favorite advice in the May issue of The Writer comes from Julia Glass . In Illuminating Fiction: Today’s Best Writers of Fiction , she debunks the adage, “write...
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