Hunted & Gathered

“Packaging a book is still the critical point where marketing and publicity begins,” remarked Lucinda Blumenfeld, the owner of Lucinda Literary, in her

1 Sometimes you’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t. Women in my generation grew up with the message you can be anything you want to be….except when you can’t.

1. The purpose of education is no longer to fit yourself to a career, which might or might not exist (at least in its current form) by the time you are ready for it.

From Bryan: This is a guest post by Joe Bunting. Joe is a professional ghostwriter and

Before becoming serious about writing, I spent many years as a professional musician, a career I still continue to pursue. As I got deeper into writing fiction, and began devoting myself to trying ...

Sometimes I feel like there isn't enough success to go around. If all the women around me become successful, it somehow eats up at the success quota.

Successful people do not lead statistically sensible lives. -- Srinivasan S Pillay 1 You know that myth about Pandora? The gods give her a box and tell her not to open it -- which, when you think about it, is the one way of ensuring that she will.

Sentient beings like you've never seen them before.

"Erasing the awe-inspiring variety of sentient life impoverishes all our lives," hist

"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."

Literary history is ripe with eloquent attempts to answer the ever

If you can figure out when readers are willing to fill in the blanks and when they're not, you'll find a powerful writing tool.

Greenlighting mess-making, 101 ways to astonish yourself, and how to flowchart your way to happiness.

The intersection of childhood and a

Robert McKee - Making it worse Writers Write offers the best writing courses in South Africa. To find out about Writers Write - How to write a book, or The Plain Language Programme - Writing course...

"­Do back exercises. Pain is distracting."

In the winter of 2010, inspired by Elmore Leonard's 10 rules of writing published in The New

There are certain things that with time and practice will get easier. Social media, blogging and even writing do get easier over time. Once our author platform is built and we understand what we're...

Inspired Openings: Sophie Littlefield on Delivering What You Promised

For every artist who struggles with transforming passion into actual and tangible, remember this:

There is no magic, no luck, no splash of momentary inspiration that will replace the call of the work in front of us.

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I keep getting e-mails from folks sending me their excerpts or whole m...

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It all started with me peering into Twitter yesterday morning and noticin...