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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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Jill Dearman, a writing coach in New York City who has written twice for our magazine in recent years, offers this intriguing writing exercise “to get your mojo percolating.” Try it for 15 minutes, she advises: "The Lie" One character...
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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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Several years ago, shortly after I started working for the magazine, I was in the awkward position of waiting for a freelance writer to turn in her article. The deadline came and went. I sent her a polite e-mail asking that she resend her piece because...
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Beginning in the May issue of The Writer , we’re happy to add a new contributing editor to our masthead, Bharti Kirchner . The Seattle writer – that’s her at left -- is a familiar byline to our readers, having written many articles in...
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One of the joys of reading is that there’s an unlimited supply of good books to discover. And who knows when or where you’ll stumble onto something new. A casual aside by my sister--during a wandering conversation about the recent PBS series...
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When we came across an item in Publishers Weekly on an Emmy Award-winning motion picture cameraman and director becoming an award-winning suspense novelist, we thought this rather unusual fellow might bring a fresh eye (so to speak) to the magazine. So...
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This week The Writer staff has been putting the magazine’s May issue to bed (i.e., proofing then sending the issue off to Production) and I’ve been polishing a talk I’ll be giving Saturday at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s...
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