by Joe Bunting |
If you celebrate Christmas, I hope you had a restful and joy-filled time with the people you love most. If you don’t, then my warmest holiday wishes to you.
The year is nearly over (can you believe it?), and I’d like us all to take these last few days of the year to breathe in what we’ve accomplished in our writing over the last year. This is usually a time of release. We’ve finished the manic shopping before Christmas. We’ve eaten more than we should but we’re putting off our workout/dieting until January 1. We are relaxed, satiated now, and so this is the perfect time for a year-end review of our writing.
by Guest Blogger |
Every Writer in Wordville liked stories a lot.
But the Grinch who lived North of Wordville did not!
The Grinch hated writing—the whole creative way.
Now, please don’t ask why. No one knows what to say.
by Pooh Hodges |
You must always save the cat in a screenplay. Never, never, never kill the cat when you are writing a screenplay. Actually, please have your main character save the cat when you write a story of any kind.
You see I am a cat. And I would never watch your movie or read your book if you were mean to a cat.
by Joe Bunting |
I first wanted to become a writer because I read those great books (you know the ones: Great Expectations and Harry Potter and Les Miserables and On the Road) and thought, “Wouldn’t it be wonderful to do this all day, to spend your afternoons having conversations with interesting characters and dealing with the deep challenges of the soul?”
by The Magic Violinist |
No matter how thick our skin is, it’s always tough to hear something negative about our work. We’ve worked so hard on it for so long, made so many edits, and now there’s even more to change. How does our manuscript even remotely resemble the original idea?
Luckily, there are a few things you can do to handle critiques in a more positive way. Here are four of my tips.
