Let me ask you a question. Do you attend a writer’s group? Do you have a twitter account and follow a bunch of other writers for inspiration, and “To have somebody in the trenches with you”? Do you regularly send out tweets about, “Gotta whip this WIP into shape!” or “500 words today, not perfect, […]
June 15, 2010
Sometimes you suck and sometimes you suck hard. I am talking about beta reading/critiquing. Seems to me there is a certain measure of responsibility that goes along with helping a friend by reading their work and giving feedback. You have to be honest, you have to be nice (this is their freaking baby after all! […]
June 11, 2010
I have a couple of friends, they know who they are, who are tweaking their novel-length manuscripts. And they have been for a very long time. I don’t understand this. It’s not that I don’t understand them, I don’t under their tenacity. I write a story, play with it a few times, and then set […]
June 24, 2010
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