How Not To Write

While trucking about from one place to another, it is inevitable that your characters will find themselves “stuck” in some place or another. You, as the active observer (i.e. the author) are charged with helping them escape their bonds and return to the journey. Of course, it isn’t as easy as it sounds [...]

Walter Kirn is the author of Up in Air, a novel that greatly contributed to my decision to quit a job that was slowly killing me. Unfortunately, I didn’t quite get the message and I jumped back into the frying pan.
Now Walter has returned in the latest Atlantic Monthly with this gem:
The Autumn of [...]

The article below from lifehack.org, reminded me about the importance of getting criticism about your work. In a few posts last week, I talked about showing your work too early and what that can do. However, at some point you have to put that work out there, and you must get serious critical [...]

I found out about this site from Jason Boog over at ThePublishingSpot
WriteMatch
In order to help you become the best writer that you can be, LWOT uses highly-advanced computer technology to match you up with a special writing partner. Together, through the magic of electronic-mail (or “e-mail”), you will lend support by reading, editing, and analyzing [...]

Visit Fungible Convictions and drop down to July 8th, then work your way up.
Getting Slowly Dumber
I haven’t posted a word since February, and I haven’t been reading. I’d always found reading and writing to be frustrating processes; they demand change. With work busy in the springtime, my fiancee’s moving in, friends’ weddings taking up [...]