by Katriena Knights If you’ve seriously pursued writing for any amount of time, you know you can’t be trusted to judge your own work. Scenes that seem wonderfully constructed in our heads are completely incomprehensible to other people. Glorious flights of poetic prose are actually pools of verbal quicksand from which no reader will ever…
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A Few Upcoming April Events
The Connection Between POV and Your Storyteller’s Voice presented by Karen Duvall | Monday, April 7 thru April 20 | Yahoo! Groups | Online Class The Writer’s Conquest: Marketing for Today’s Author presented by Thomas A. Fowler | April 12, 11:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. | Sam Gary Branch Library, Denver, CO | Free Program
Juggling Contracts, Part 3: Beware the Sub-Clauses!
By Susan Spann Last month’s RMFW #PubLaw post talked about contract language authors want to see when juggling multiple contracts for different types of rights. This month, we’ll take a look at the other clauses authors need to watch for. Even contracts which seem to address only limited rights sometimes contain additional terms that impact…
On Mastery
By Kerry Schafer Finish the damn book. I know you’ve heard this before. You’ve heard it from writers far more well known than I am, people like Neil Gaiman and Stephen King. There’s even a Finish the Damn Book Contest out there you can enter, if you need that kind of encouragement. Why? Because every…
Don’t Listen to Mr. Scrooge
By Lucinda Stein History. Research. “Bah, humbug!” some might say. But as an author, I’ve found writing historical fiction brings surprising benefits. A writer needs a good understanding of the time period, including clothing and hairstyles, transportation, customs, lifestyles, political and social trends, architecture, etc. Whew! Research takes time and effort. But like writing a…