How Not To Write

Note: this review was written in a huff. Pamuk’s book is actually quite wonderful when taken in the right frame of mind. I’m leaving up this post though (as I do all the garbage here) because it serves as a good reminder not to take myself so seriously.
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For too long, I’ve been living my life in the negative. At the moment, I publish this little blog called How Not To Write, a site I created in frustration as I continued to “fail” as a writer. Frankly, I have no sense that I have ever successfully defined what a writer is [...]

Mark Terry isn’t starting a meme, but it feels like one anyway…
The Book Brahmins Questions:
Shelf Awareness, a newsletter I get, generally has a section on Fridays where they interview “Book Brahmins” (and no, I find the reference a bit vague) and ask the same questions. Today, for instance, they interview Douglas Preston (whose [...]

No doubt, everyone has read or heard about the recent Cassie Edwards Fiasco and the Seinfeld Cookbook Scandal. Well, the ladies over at smartbitchestrashybooks.com (who broke the Cassie Edwards story) have a recommendation for readers who want to do something about plagiarism:

… I advocate a method that works, and works astoundingly well, and has [...]

I’m the sort of fellow who always wonders if the model can be changed, adjusted, tweaked. And so, with all the major shifts in the world of publishing (books, magazines, newspapers), I’m wondering if it isn’t time for me to explore the possibility of creating my own micro publisher.