So far, I’ve managed to easily meet my goal of 500 words a day. I’m even thinking of upgrading to 1000 words a day, but am going to wait a couple of weeks to make sure I’m not just experience a burst of “beginning of the year resolution” enthusiasm. How . . .
New York attorney Mark Fowler used to contribute an advice column to my e-mail newsletter for writers, Inklings. Now he has a blog of his own called Rights Of Writers, an excellent resource. In his most recent post, he answers the question: “Can I sell first publication rights to a story . . .
I’ve always been interested in reading about other writers’ work habits, so I was delighted to see that Cheryl Klein had posted a review with Elizabeth C. Bunce, the author of CURSE AS DARK AS GOLD (which I loved) and STARCROSSED (ooo, must get this). Elizabeth says that CURSE took three years of “painstaking craft and . . .
Beyond The Margins is a group blog for a group of writers who met, taught, and workshopped through Grub Street, a nonprofit creative writing center in Boston. “We have published novels, short fiction, poetry, newspaper and magazine articles, and our backgrounds and careers run the gamut from social work and medicine . . .
Though I’ve gotten better over the years, I still struggle with this one word. Seems (at first, at least) much easier to say yes. I’m talking about the small favors that people ask you to do, the ones that you’re sure will only take a few minutes of your time. . . .
YA author Laurie Halse Anderson has a post that everyone should read. I’m serious. If you haven’t already, please go read it RIGHT NOW: Laurie Halse Anderson: Your Time Is Your Currency I dare you to read this and NOT be super-inspired.
Helia Phoenix has a great post about Morning Pages. In case some of you haven’t heard the term before, Julia Cameron proposed the exercise in her book, The Artist’s Way, where you write three pages of stream-of-consciousness every morning. Read more about this in this Write For Your Life post.
Adventures in Children’s Publishing has a great SCBWI Conference Round-up from Linda Sue Park’s workshop on middle grade novels. Excerpt: The great mission of middle grade novels is to show young people that the world isn’t fair, but that doesn’t mean it has to be miserable.
One of the biggest challenges of attending an event like the SCBWI Summer Conference, I found, was having to pick between simultaneously scheduled workshops. I wasn’t able to attend Deborah Halverson’s workshop but Adventures In Children’s Publishing did, and has generously shared a conference round-up. A former editor at Harcourt, Halverson . . .
James Scott Bell has posted an excellent checklist to keep in mind as you revise, before you submit your manuscript. The list is based on a sidebar in the May/June issue of Writer’s Digest from YA editor, Anica Morse Rissi.