“It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.”
—Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
In this week’s episode (#28) of The Scribbling Woman
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Shaping Our Writerly Vocabulary
“If we look at the HHP for an NPD that’s driving NR at scale by the time our basis points will have doubled down…” Alex Normanton “I don’t know what the Sam Hill you’re talking about. I’m writing a novel here.” Nancy Rue I don’t know when it happened, but somehow the language that truly
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Writing What We Know: The Full Story
“If you wrote only from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.” Nikki Giovanni Raise your hand if, early on, you did not hear, “Write what you know.” None of you? It’s good advice, actually, as far as it goes. But poet (among other things) Nikki Giovanni is right.
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Respecting your Writerly Life, Part III: What It Really Means to Go Indie
“The beauty of being an indie author is you get to decide what it means, not anyone else.” Cat Webling, Laterpress Until relatively recently in the history of the industry, self-publishing was considered what writers did when they couldn’t get a contract from a traditional house. It meant: It was actually called “vanity publishing”—probably by
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Respecting Your Writerly Life, Part II: Friending Your Writing
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. —Barbara Kingsolver, from “Stone Soup” in High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never In this week’s podcast, Episode #24 (the second in our series on Respecting Your Writerly Life), we focus
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Respecting Your Writerly Life, Part I: Validating Your Role
When can you start calling yourself a writer?Now. Chuck Sambuchino If you’ve watched or listened to this week’s podcast, Episode #23, “Validating Your Writerly Role,” this is your support follow-up. If you haven’t, what the heck’s been stopping ya? In that episode we revisit the BOHOs. Remember them? The Big Ol’ Hairy Obstacles that tell
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Owning Your Creative Process
I hate writing. I love having written. Dorothy Parker I am so sorry, Dorothy. What a bummer to have hated the process of creating what delighted us all so much. Personally, I believe that if the journey is a good fit for us, we can love getting there as much as we dig being there.
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