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Six on the brain #13

March 2, 2007

The Great American Book Giveaway
As if M.J. Rose didn’t already do enough for writers, book promotion and the publishing industry. Now she’s gone and created The Great American Book Giveaway, a program that gives away a new book to hundreds of randomly selected people who’ve entered their e-mail address.
There’s no charge or obligation for entering, [...]

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Six on the brain #12

February 24, 2007

Three Books On Writing I Can’t Live Without
Like a lot of my peers, I love books about writing. And also like my peers, I have my favorites and host of others I think are terrible.
Okay… maybe terrible isn’t the right word. A matter of taste? In any case, I don’t like ’em.
And I’m leaving off [...]

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Six on the brain #11

February 6, 2007

Here’s a Great Tool to Manage Your Deadlines and Track Your Progress

I’ve made no secret that I have some troubles keeping my own deadlines… and I know I’m not alone in this.

We’re writers and most of us—including those who’ve got deals—are at the stage in the game where we aren’t yet able to quit our day jobs to do this thing called storytelling full time.

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Six on the brain #10

February 1, 2007

So you don’t think you’ve got time to write a novel?
To anyone out there who claims they don’t have enough time to write a novel, I say that’s a cop out. I’ve written about the “no time to write” thing before, but I’m coming at it from a different direction this time: breaking stuff down [...]

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Six on the brain #9

January 24, 2007

I’ve been thinking recently about this silly notion called “writer’s block.” I call it silly because I really don’t know what it is.
Don’t get me wrong: there have been times—extended periods, really—when I didn’t write a thing other than e-mails. I may have attributed that drought to writer’s block, but the simple truth of the [...]

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Six on the brain #8

January 12, 2007

I’m facing deadlines these days. I’ve got a lot of ’em at my day job right now. My freelance and business projects are heating up, too.
Don’t get me wrong because I’m not complaining. I’d rather be busy like this than the other way around.
What I hate about deadlines is that I’m terrible at keeping them [...]

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