Friday Feast: Write, Revise, Repeat
We Bostonians are known for our strong feelings. After last week’s snowmageddon grump fest, it is now time to hunker down and focus. This week, we bring you links focused on writing and revision.
We Bostonians are known for our strong feelings. After last week’s snowmageddon grump fest, it is now time to hunker down and focus. This week, we bring you links focused on writing and revision.
There’s not a lot of advice I can give to other writers about how to be successful. The problem is that there are too many individual interpretations of “success.” To me, success looks like this: I can pay my electric…
Once again, I find myself gestating two babies: my book and an actual human child, currently two weeks out from D-Day. This happened two years ago too, smack in the middle of the Novel Incubator. I went to class one…
There are some great links this week, but all I can think about is macaroni and cheese. Homemade mac and cheese. Kraft mac and cheese. Mac and cheese with breadcrumbs, hot dogs, tuna … Nothing else matters. You can find…
This Draft Sucks – Part I ends with the following advice: if you think your draft sucks, put it away. Don’t look at it for a month and hope when you return with fresh eyes it won’t suck as badly…
Jonathan Lethem once said in an interview that he wrote early drafts of Motherless Brooklyn, a first-person novel from the POV of a character with Tourette’s, in third person. The interviewee was shocked. And in disbelief. But Lethem insisted he…