I had a brilliant post on the subject of self publishing half finished when my computer burped (its been doing that a lot lately, as it is Mercury Retrograde–back up your computers!) and I lost it. The two posts I did this week on writing and self publishing garnered lots of comments, and not the […]
So, you’re ready to learn how to make money writing online. Me, too. No, just kidding I really am going to share everything I know about this with you in this series of posts that is going to become an ebook. (You can read the introduction here.) I want to start by talking about the […]
Well, you know what they say, great minds think alike. Today my writing colleague Anne Waymans sent out her newsletter, and guess what the topic was? Yup, self-publishing in general and I-Universe in particular. Read it here.
So, Roy and Cathy and I have been emailing about self-publishing. Well, really Roy and I have, since we seem to be the most loud-mouthed and vociferous in our opinions. (Shocking, I know.) The impetus (or inciting incident, if you want to use fiction terminology) for this discussion was Roy and Cathy’s visit to the […]
Did that title get your attention? I thought it might. Anything that says "make money" nabs me. And, it seems that everyone and his or her uncle is currently writing blogs and websites about making money online. There is a lot of great information about making money on the internet available to you. Most of […]
So, I had plans to write another post on redemptive character arcs tonight. I planned to write about Jenna Bush, who has a new book out about a young woman with AIDS. It seemed to me that Jenna’s story told a classic redemptive tale. It is always instructive for writers to study stories like this, […]
Well, unless you live in a cave, you know by now that Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize today. I’m thrilled. But what I’ve been thinking about all day, me being the writer that I am, is Al’s character arc. It pretty neatly follows the path of the hero’s journey, made popular by Joseph […]
Just found this link with an extensive (she’s prolific) list of Doris Lessing’s books. You can access it here [link no longer available].
This is a good week for us literary freaks, what with Doris Lessing winning the Nobel Prize for Literature today, which you can read about in my previous post here, and the National Book Award Nominations being announced yesterday. So, let’s just cut straight to the chase here–Denis Johnson was nominated for Tree of Smoke. […]
Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature today. You can read the Reuters story about it here and the New York Times piece here. The Times piece has a great photo of her sitting on her front steps in London, surrounded by reporters. She was apparently out shopping when it was announced, and learned […]
