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2009-09-25 06:14 pm

Link goodness: on failure, doing nothing, rejection, dialogue and excuses

Kristine Kathryn Rusch on failure.

You should be reading the entirety of the Freelancer’s Survival Guide if you’re not already.

“…failures are opportunities.

Opportunities to start over. Opportunities to make changes. Opportunities to learn.”


On Doing Nothing

“How are we going to feel that tap on the shoulder…that leads us to new stories, new subject matter, if we’re scrambling the hamster wheel of busy-ness?”


17 reasons manuscripts are rejected.

Some of these are major dealbreakers for me as a reader.  And I’ve come across far too many of them in published books – I get especially annoyed at sliding points of view.  I can only imagine what agents and publishers get in their slush some days.

5 lessons I’ve learned about writing dialogue in fiction.

Writing excuses.

Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.