Tag: writing
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November 07, 2009 10:44 AM EST --
Trying New Things
Linda Bilodeau is the author of Stepping Through Seagrass , The Wine Seekers and The Olive Branch- A Tale of Resistance. She is a student in the MFA program . . .
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January 04, 2007 01:50 AM EST --
10 THINGS THAT HAVE CHANGED SINCE I SOLD MY NOVEL
A year ago today, something incredible happened to me. Let me set the scene: It was around eleven in the morning, and I was in my study . . .
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February 01, 2007 12:38 PM EST --
You have to think that there is already something going wrong when I decide upon my New Year's Resolution on February 1st. Perhaps it should be to stop procrastinating. Aaah well. . . .
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April 06, 2007 01:37 AM EDT --
Because writers are essentially people who live and die by the power of imagination, we tend to dream extravagantly, wildly, sometimes impossibly. But that’s all right. Dreams are our task masters . . .
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March 23, 2007 01:29 AM EDT --
One thing no one ever warned me about Gather is that it’s addictive. As soon as I returned from my book tour, I plunked my heavy suitcase in the hallway, and kissed my kids and my dogs and . . .
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October 22, 2007 12:48 AM EDT --
Every writer needs an editor. No exceptions! Just for starters, there are several stages of your writing in which you might need an editor to help:
* Clarify your concept
* Plan and organize your material . . .
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March 02, 2007 04:17 PM EST --
For the first three years I owned a computer, the phrases most logged into the search engine were “literary agents” and “how to find one.” Occasionally I dropped . . .
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March 08, 2008 04:15 PM EST --
Everyone who's a reader loves that anticipatory thrill of opening a new book, settling into the corner of your overstuffed sofa, clearing one's mind, and sinking into the first line, the opening . . .
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May 04, 2007 12:40 AM EDT --
The first booksigning I did was at the New England Booksellers’ Association. I appeared in the Penguin booth, which gave me a terrific opportunity to meet some of the local and national sales people . . .
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November 07, 2007 05:29 PM EST --
Work is the central issue of a freelance writer's life - the ability to find work and the desire and ability to do it. When I first began freelancing, close to 40 years ago, finding the work wasn't . . .
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March 09, 2007 12:58 AM EST --
Call it the fatal question. Ask it too often, or too needily in a relationship and you may eventually end up hearing the response you fear most. It’s a matter of simple psychology. Doubt your own . . .
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February 21, 2007 06:25 PM EST --
When I decided to become a ghostwriter, I was quite naive. I had been writing professionally for close to four decades and freelancing for most of that time. I had written 12 nonfiction books on a range . . .
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December 27, 2007 03:54 PM EST --
Lately I have become jealous of unpublished writers,still living their lives in their own imagination or working on their craft. Last week, I stole a few moments to work on a new novel that . . .
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May 27, 2007 10:54 AM EDT --
Last year I went to Book Expo America and carried home fifty pounds of advance copies that I read and reviewed from July to December. It was a really fun experience to consume the Fall Big Books before . . .
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August 18, 2007 11:27 AM EDT --
I admit it. I’m a classic overachiever. I’m never satisfied with doing well. I’m pushing for Wow!
I have a difficult time committing to anything I’m not passionate about. A . . .
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August 24, 2007 02:14 PM EDT --
Ok, you’ve finished your manuscript. You’ve sent out query letters. You finally have a nibble! Someone wants to see a couple chapters and a synopsis. This is your last chance to reel them . . .
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May 07, 2007 01:11 AM EDT --
I have recently finished wading through a pile of submissions that I evaluated for a writing contest. Do not let this happen to you. Even if the money sounds good, there is no way it's . . .
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March 30, 2007 02:59 AM EDT --
Sometimes I'm embarrassed by the number of how-to-write books I've accumulated in my life, and by how often I still consult them. Shouldn't I have graduated by now? Do I still need to turn . . .
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March 23, 2007 12:26 AM EDT --
Round 1 of the First Chapters Writing Competition will soon be coming to a close. I have been RRCing (read, rate comment) as many as I can, but as a slow reader—particularly on a computer monitor—there . . .
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March 12, 2008 08:30 PM EDT --
Dear Readers and Gatherers: If you're looking for my novel, White Lies , it's not the romance novel on the best seller list (fortunately or unfortunately depending on how you look at it.) Better . . .
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