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Is this too sensitive? Are we too sensitive?

by Rob @ 52 Novels on May 12, 2006

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I read this morning that NBC fired a producer for plagiarism:

The script said that trainer Michael Matz “ran into the fire to save the lives of three children.” The narrator paused dramatically and said, “ran into the fire.”

The pause and last line echoed one delivered by Martin Sheen, who plays the president on “The West Wing,” in a scene in the NBC series’ fourth season.

As a writer, I’ve been keeping my eye on the scandals in the publishing world with interest. From James Frey’s spinning of life events from whole cloth to the latest round of upheaval … Kaavya Viswanathan’s thievery from a couple of beloved books from her childhood.

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The simplicity cycle

by Rob @ 52 Novels on May 12, 2006

I was zooming around the Internet the other day and I stumbled across a site called Change This. It’s another creation from marketing expert Seth Godin.

This site, which he launched with Amit Gupta — the wunderkind behind The Daily Jolt — is an attempt to leverage the power of Web 2.0 … maybe not so much to be a vehicle for social change as much as a powerful method of spreading ideas. Not unknown territory for Godin.

So what does this have to do with writing or reading?

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The first draft is always shit

by Rob @ 52 Novels on May 8, 2006

I was recently reading a from Immediate Fiction, the wonderful book from Jerry Cleaver at the The Writer’s Loft in Chicago.

Cleaver pointed out the Ernest Hemingway quote that titles this post. Cleaver follows up by adding his own bit of wisdom … paraphrased: “If Hemingway thought all first drafts were shit, why should yours be any different?”

It’s a damn good question. I know in my own writing I often fall victim to the evil self-editor and I hate it. I talk to other writers — ones like me with aspirations and less-than-resounding successes — and they admit to the same. And reading about other authors, ones that have been published, also say they can’t always escape the pitfall.

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