So the madness is spreading across the country and around the world. People (140,000 of them!!) have embarked on the adventure of a lifetime (sometimes for the second, fifth or even tenth time!) as they endeavour to create a novel of 50,000 words in the 30 days of November. National Novel Writing Month, in the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘author’
3 Nov
Oh no! NaNo!
Posted by awalkabout in life, parenthood, sci-fi, writing. Tagged: author, Chris Baty, contest, Ivory Madison, NaNoWriMo, prize, publishing, Red Room, writer. 1 Comment
1 Aug
What about the little guy?
Posted by awalkabout in life, walkabout, writing. Tagged: author, Bolt, celebrities, Foxy Brown, ghost writer, Jenna Bush, Li'l Kim, Madonna, Miley Cyrus, Naomi Campbell, Patterson, star, Travolta. 3 Comments
A trend is surfacing in cartoon movies, like in the forthcoming Bolt, with John Travolta, Miley Cyrus and Malcolm McDowell. Celebrities do all the important voices. See the Toy Story movies. Or…any of them, really.
It’s the same in the publishing world. If you’re “somebody,” it seems like you can get a book published [...]
3 Jun
The quick-fix society
Posted by awalkabout in life, walkabout, writing. Tagged: attack, author, Bush, Clinton, election, lie, Marcotte, Mark Twain, McCain, Melville, Obama, politics, retraction, Sharon Stone, The Root. 6 Comments
I remember the days when people used to write something–a novel, a newspaper column, whatever–and it stood. Absent some blatant factual error, what you read was what you got.
The same used to be true about what people said, particularly famous people, who speak a lot, in public, with people listening. You researched your topic, you [...]
12 May
Still walking those streets
Posted by awalkabout in autism, humor, life, sci-fi, walkabout, writing. Tagged: agent, author, autistic, blog, conference, editor, fiction, Firefly, Firefox, literary, NaNoWriMo, network, Pennwriters, seminar, writing, YA. 10 Comments
“Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.” — [...]
17 Apr
Am I a writer yet??
Posted by awalkabout in humor, life, sci-fi, walkabout, writing. Tagged: article, author, Firefox, gadgets, Internet, Mary Sue, novel, publish, self-promotion, tech writer. 6 Comments
While I participate in the writer’s soap opera As The Nervous Stomach Turns, waiting to hear back from agents and editors about my novel manuscripts, I alternate between dark bouts of never wanting to pick up a word processor again and the juicy buzz of hot flowing prose.
My husband is so pleased, because unfortunately he [...]
13 Apr
The write stuff
Posted by awalkabout in divorce, life, walkabout, writing. Tagged: agent, author, blog, conference, editor, manuscript, meet and greet, novel, Oates, Pennwriters, story, workshop, writer. 5 Comments
Next month, I’m going to the Pennwriters’ annual Writing Conference. It’s a fairly big deal, some 450 writers, editors and others, our keynote speaker being Joyce Carol Oates, and agents and editors falling out the cracks to find their Next Big Thing.
Of course, I’ve signed up to pitch an editor, attend the critique sessions for [...]
20 Jan
Authors Unite!
Posted by awalkabout in writing. Tagged: author, books, marketing, self-promotion. 1 Comment
You may notice a new feature on the blog today: The Polka Dot Banner (PDB). No, this is not a nostalgic reminder of all those cute little dresses we all wore back in the day. It’s a group of authors banding together to promote their work.
The site’s founder, Jamie Saloff, author of Transformational Healing, acknowledges [...]
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