Bernadette Mayer’s list of journal ideas — exercises and experiments in writing. Filed away for future reference.
Tag: writing
Vonnegut on story-telling
Kurt Vonnegut at the blackboard describing the G-I axis (good fortune-ill fortune) and how it applies to different stories.
Notes from a midlist author
The confessions of a semi-successful author. The article is a few years old, but I can’t imagine the conditions have become much better.
If you don’t want to hear about the noir underside of publishing — if you’re a writer longing for a literary career, or a reader who’s happier not knowing that producing and marketing a book these days involves about as much moral purity as producing and marketing a pair of Nikes — I suggest you stop reading now.
Writing with distractions
Cory Doctorow offers some tips for writing in the age of distraction. Among them, use plain text not a fancy word processor, realtime communications tools are evil and don’t research, substitute TK for things you don’t know and come back to them later.
Writing struggles
The daily struggles of writing. I went through this last year.
Writer’s rooms
Writer’s rooms, environment is everything.