Note: This Post Originally featured on the WickedWriters Blog… http://thewickedwriters.blogspot.com/ Ok. Now let me see… it’s, what? 22:30? (…so the little digital time piece in the corner of my Windows 7 task-bar tells me). That is… precisely… one hour and thirty minutes within which I have this target to complete a post on writer’s block!…
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A Very Public Encounter
by David Sartof •
Note: This Post Originally featured on the WickedWriters Blog… http://thewickedwriters.blogspot.com/ Dylan Who? Not Bob, surely? A good friend suggested, when I mentioned that I was about to attend my first literary luncheon as a published author, that I should do a “Dylan Thomas” – “Just wear a scarf, drink a lot of alcohol, and you’ll…
Caro Clarke: Can she be smart and still in peril?
by David Sartof •
Note: This Post Originally featured on the WickedWriters Blog… http://thewickedwriters.blogspot.com/ Nine Don’ts when writing about a female protagonist Today, we are joined by my guest, Caro Clarke. Caro is a Canadian, born in Ontario. She spent her childhood in various oil towns from Alaska to Newfoundland, but eventually her family settled in Calgary, Alberta. Caro…
Handy hint #1 – the lighter side of self-publishing or…
by David Sartof •
Note: This Post Originally featured on the WickedWriters Blog… http://thewickedwriters.blogspot.com/ Self publishing 101: Economics So, after refusing to accept rejection – or, rather, ‘…getting fed up of waiting for an agent to pick up my work with anything more than a resigned shrug and the comment “what’s this?” to his assistant, late on a Friday…
Rejection? A question of culture…
by David Sartof •
Note: This Post Originally featured on the WickedWriters Blog… http://thewickedwriters.blogspot.com/ It was reinforced to me, today, as I spent a pleasurable few hours lecturing about change and the management of change to a very important student of the educational institute I am now a member of, that we can never take anything for granted. Cultural…
My First Time… (or, The Virgin Short Story Writer)
by David Sartof •
Note: This Post Originally featured on the WickedWriters Blog… http://thewickedwriters.blogspot.com/ There I was, idly sitting at my desk, twiddling with my mouse, thinking about more marketing moves to help with the promotion of River of Judgement, when I stumbled upon a competition. A short story competition was to be held as part of the Theakstons…