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Welcome (again) to Poppycock Publishing!
Well, it’s been quite a week out there, hasn’t it? The Boston Marathon bombs and the West, Texas, fertilizer plant explosion, people being horribly injured and killed, manhunts, relief efforts, and...
View ArticleThe Fine Art of Not Writing
I came across this article at thejunket.org on the fine art of not writing. A snippet: “I have become an expert in the fine art of not writing. Anybody can play the busy fool for a morning or two, but...
View ArticleEntropy is REAL and Author Careers Need Feeding DAILY | Kristen Lamb’s Blog
Entropy is REAL and Author Careers Need Feeding DAILY | Kristen Lamb’s Blog. I have just started reading Kristen Lamb’s very helpful book, Are You There Blog? It’s Me, Writer. This is a great book for...
View ArticleThe Business of Self-Publishing: What to Include in Your Ebook Besides The Story
As brand-new publishers-to-be ourselves, we’re looking for all sorts of information from other publishers about how to improve our product … once we have product to offer, of course. Part of our...
View ArticleJulie Butcher: What the Flock is a HIGH CONCEPT PITCH?
Most writers have heard of the High Concept Pitch. But how many of us know what that is? If we’re just starting out in the business, then chances are we’ve been told we need one of these things, but...
View ArticleHerbert Spencer on counting syllables | Alec Nevala-Lee
This post, linked below, is an excellent example of ‘do what I say, not what I do’. In the quote, Herbert Spencer goes on, in great, flowery language, to tell us to eschew obfuscation, and to minimize...
View ArticleWhen Is It Time to Start Building an Author Platform? | Kristen Lamb’s Blog
Whether you are just beginning as a writer, or you are already an established author with a lucrative book contract and a shelf full of hardbound copies of your fifteenth NYT Best Seller, or you are...
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Why do you write?
Writing (Photo credit: jjpacres) Everyone has their own reasons for doing things. You have your reasons for writing, and I have mine, and they aren’t all going to be the same reasons. We all have...
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Writing Guidelines? Pick Your Own! – Women Writers, Women Books
Here is an excellent post on assorted rules and guidelines of writing style, and why you need to break them. Especially highlighted is the ‘rule’ about never using an adverb in your writing. This post...
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