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Friday, November 22, 2013
A Pulitzer Prize Winner Shares Some Tips
These tips are a bit more high-minded and abstract than, say, Elmore Leonard's tips, but they are valuable.
Here they are.
From Pixar, Some Great Advice to Keep In Mind
Here's a link to a wonderful Power Point presentation about writing. It hits some key storytelling ideas.
Saturday, November 16, 2013
Talent, IQ and the Secret to Success
In Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers he gives many examples of a phenomenon I've also witnessed in my own students over the years, and in my readings of the biographies of great writers. Gladwell puts it fairly succinctly. For someone to reach a level of competency in almost any field, sports, academia, dance, painting, blue collar jobs, an apprenticeship of roughly 10,000 hours is required. That equals roughly 10 years of hard work, committed, focused, trying and failing and trying again to learn your chosen craft.
For me the corollary to this is: If you're going to stick with something for ten years, you better be having a lot of fun doing it along the way.
Check out this video which approaches the same issue from a slightly different point of view.
For me the corollary to this is: If you're going to stick with something for ten years, you better be having a lot of fun doing it along the way.
Check out this video which approaches the same issue from a slightly different point of view.
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Prose: Lean and Mean, What Script Writers Can Teach Us
Here's an interesting article on ways that studying the highly disciplined art of script writing can help improve fiction writing.
What script writers can teach us.
What script writers can teach us.
Monday, September 9, 2013
An Agent Puts Together a Thorough Advice Page with Several Links
Good agents know the ever changing publishing business. When they share their opinions and ideas, it's a good idea to listen. (of course with your crap detector on full alert)
Here's an Excellent Business Advice Page
Here's an Excellent Business Advice Page
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