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“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to...”
– Scott Adams
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?
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A civilian's guide to the querying process.
Many times those of us who have finished a writing project and are attempting to get published will say that we are “querying” agents, and anyone who has never had exposure to the massive amount of available publishing information might wonder what the heck we’re talking about. So, here is a brief guide for the uninformed:
The querying process is a lot like finding a job: you...
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“i know this is going to sound crazy, but we could not let the box of rats ruin...”
– mike flannegan, friends, season 9, episode 12
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It's a pleasure to fail you
I still remember the first real work of fiction I ever wrote. I was 10, I think, and I started a short story series entitled, “Captain Cool and the Hero Wanna-Be League.” It had a total readership of three, if my brother read it too. This series was a satire on all the comic books I regularly drooled over. It had some unique characters (Col. Biscuit, an actual living buttermilk...
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The Donkey Tale
(adapted from Aesop’s fable)
There once was a donkey, and he was a writer. He wrote pithy, cynical essay’s about the state of the barnyard.
There also were some crickets, also writers. They wrote about vampires, and love, and sex, and more vampires. Their writing was beautiful, and people liked it better than the donkey’s.
So the donkey decided he, too, would write about...
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April 2009
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“Leave your foolish ways behind, and begin to live; learn how to be wise.”
– Proverbs 9:6