Tag Archives: care and feeding of writers

Teamwork

September 14, 2011 – 6:57 am

When you look at the arts, there are some that clearly, obviously require the talents of multiple people to produce. Movies, for instance, need not only writers but actors, camera operators, prop and costume people, and on and on – last time I went to one, the credits rolled on for nearly five minutes. At [...]

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Fan mail from some flounder?

March 20, 2011 – 6:30 am

One of the things that happens when you write books that are marketed as Young Adult or childrens is, you get letters from kids who have been assigned to write them in class. It’s really obvious, for two reasons: first, the number of letters drops off markedly during the summer months, and second, the class [...]

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Day Jobs

March 15, 2010 – 8:23 am

People make time for the things they love. That is why I am always a bit skeptical at first when people tell me that they can’t write because they have a day job…especially when their day job is a relatively non-demanding 40 hours per week. People have to make time for the things they love, [...]

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With a Little Help from my Friends

November 29, 2009 – 1:32 pm

I had brunch this morning with my friend Rosemary, who is about as crazy as I am but on just a different enough axis that we stimulate each other to new heights of silliness, rather than bogging down because we’ve each had exactly the same idea and can’t build on it. Anyway, Rosemary is one [...]

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You ought to be a writer

August 20, 2009 – 9:14 am

Every once in a while, I run across people who are baffled and frustrated by the behavior of certain talented friends of theirs.  “They can write great stuff; why don’t they?”  “Their fanfic is great; why don’t they try to submit stuff professionally?”  “They’ve sold a bunch of books; why don’t they quit their day [...]

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