Fail Faster, Succeed Quicker The first time I saw “Fail faster, succeed quicker,” I was at an MIT robotics convention. Don’t ask. The idea being each failure teaches one to design a better experiment–or novel. More failures means more learning…
Author and fellow site editor Emily Ross sent me this week’s link about Barnes & Noble and shared her thoughts: “After appearing in so many of them, I’ve grown to like them a great deal, and realize that the people who…
I used to hang around a bunch of poets. Not because I liked them—they were snobbish in their elegiac greatness—but because as poets, they were guaranteed to get rejected more often than I. My novel was dead in the water while…
Much like Amanda Nelson of Book Riot (we love them and always end up sharing their work), I’m obsessed with Tiny Homes (to be fair, she’s only fascinated). I’ve wondered where I’ll put my food — forget clothing storage, I can survive with…
Let’s end the week with the problematic nature of giving reviews to members of your literary community. I tend to go with Randy Susan Meyers’s philosophy: “there are enough professional and amateur critics out there and I know how much even…
Let’s kick off the weekend by reading a little bit about the sting of writerly rejection. Then, we’ll slide into how your shitty day job is at least making you a better writer (yay). We’ll get anxious with another writer and…