Failing again. Failing better.
Mark Lawrence posted a link to a Guardian article on his Facebook thread earlier today that announces a bit of sad news for writers. Here’s the important bit: According to a survey of almost 2,500 working writers – the first comprehensive study of author earnings in the UK since 2005 – the median income of…
Damien Walter, a writer (both fiction and for The Guardian), writing teacher, and Clarion graduate (you can find him here on Twitter), recently linked to an interesting article on his blog. The article discusses the results of fMRI scans of writers’ brains when writing. Apparently, novice visualize a scene, whereas more advanced writers narrated a…
While walking my dog this morning, I listened to the latest episode of the Writing Excuses podcast. In addition to valuable advice on pre-writing tools, Brandon Sanderson also announced that they are releasing an anthology, SHADOWS BENEATH. Anthologies come out quite frequently, and many of them are exciting for any number of reasons. Heck, I…
Whoops, I didn’t post last week. Sorry about that. I had a bit of work to do, and time got away from me. And to be honest, I wasn’t in a mood to post anything because I was a bit frustrated with a new story. I kept revising the opening pages over and over again.…
A lot happened this week: some bad news and some good news. The bad news from this week is that after a long illness, Nobel-Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez has died. If you haven’t read ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE, LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA, or any of his other novels, short stories, or…