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Writers: The mire of conflicting advice & unfair criticism
Write what you know is bad advice. Instead, write what you care about.
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Writers: Craft your pitch carefully.
When we pitch a story we talk about broad strokes and the rest is about theme. The reason is that when we summarize in depth, the story often sounds dumb.
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Editing: How to take advice
Blogging about writing and publishing can be a quixotic adventure.
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Writers: Is writing therapy for you?
The benefits you get from writing may be every bit as personal and profound as a therapy session from In Treatment, but if you're writing for an audience, please let your readers find their own therapy.
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Writers: Take a penny, leave a penny
"Is it any good?" the writer managed. Is it benign? is what she meant.
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Writers: Use a spill file as you edit
The spill file is the writer's wedding album: you make a big deal out of it and then hardly, if ever, look at it again.
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Edit Point: One another versus each other
Editing is often intuitive. I could tell you, for instance, which usage is correct, but I couldn't tell you why.
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Writing Exercise: Idea Generation
If you write, go read Quick Brown Fox and check out a Brian Henry workshop.
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Slush Pile Snark
Nice is the norm. Smart is the norm. It's just that nasty people are so much louder and more memorable.
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A Quick Top Ten: Make revisions painless
Punctuation marks are the life-preserver under your seat on the plane. You know it's there, but you don't want to pause a moment to think about why it's there.
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