Tag: novelists
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February 22, 2008 08:55 PM EST --
How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead, by Ariel Gore
I wanted to hate this book, just because of its flip title and its cool young author, Portland's Ariel Gore, of "Hip . . .
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September 29, 2006 07:52 PM EDT --
This is a favorite exercise I recommend to people working on a novel, or on a longer piece that requires in-depth character development.
We tend to forget that a primary revelator of character . . .
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November 26, 2009 04:14 AM EST --
I stayed up all night to write. I'm so serious. Writing started at midnight. My goal was 2500 words daily. Or nightly, you could say. I did fairly well until almost mid-way through the month, and . . .
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February 14, 2007 04:10 PM EST --
Hey Gather lit lovers, here's an opportunity to be the envy of your book club…
Thanks to our friends over at Borders, We have three signed advanced reader copies of Jodi Picoult's . . .
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October 27, 2008 09:01 AM EDT --
Apparently it's sorta well-known around here that Peter Joseph Swanson is a novelist. Huh.
Back when I first got to know him (in high school) nearly three decades ago (*sob*...we're . . .
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August 26, 2007 02:57 PM EDT --
It’s happened to many of us or to a colleague in the business. If you’re a writer, you know someone whose career took a stutter step when their publisher went out of business. Perhaps it was . . .
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January 24, 2006 05:19 PM EST --
The world of American Arts and Letters is not a friendly place for voices hailing from right of center.
Most English Departments have marched in lockstep with a far-left world view for more . . .
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July 07, 2007 10:32 PM EDT --
I finished the next chapter on my current WIP and took a break to check my email, gather and all those yahoo groups I'm connected to. I love reading all the advice, listening to success stories, . . .
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September 16, 2007 12:06 AM EDT --
Did you know I write novels? I don't often mention that on Gather. This is not another request to read a first chapter...
I found Gather through an AdSense link on a friend's writing website. . . .
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September 11, 2006 07:15 PM EDT --
Lucy Caldwell was born in Belfast in 1981. She graduated from Queens' College, Cambridge with a First in English and completed with Distinction a Masters in Creative & Life Writing at Goldsmiths . . .
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August 21, 2007 02:16 PM EDT --
Well, they probably won't happen. I know these things happen to a select few and I hope you've either been one of them or will be one day. But for most of us, me for example, here are some things . . .
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October 03, 2007 07:59 PM EDT --
What made you become a writer? When you were asked, "What do you do for a living?" how many years did it take you to be courageous enough to say, "I am a writer." Do you list "writer" . . .
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November 01, 2007 11:33 PM EDT --
Every year in November, an increasing number of word-intoxicated, aspring novelists, commit to the fun, the madness, the sheer exhilaration of trying to produce a novel in a month. If you're a writer, . . .
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February 18, 2006 09:51 AM EST --
Reading through comments on Gather.com is often an exercise in the worst of politics. It is not that people at Gather are merely are polarized – it is that the polarization is an active process. . . .
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November 02, 2006 07:35 PM EST --
Pascale Quiviger is a teacher, a visual artist and an author.
She first entered the literary scene with Ni sol ni ciel (2001), a collection of six short stories.
She followed this up with her highly . . .
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March 20, 2007 07:16 PM EDT --
Forward Motion is the best message board I've found for novelists who want to join an enthusiastic, helpful writing community of working professionals. Though there's a big emphasis on science . . .
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July 26, 2007 01:46 PM EDT --
Today is a momentous day for me. My first fantasy romance book, The Greater Good, is available today from www.newconceptspublishing.com
Please visit the website and check out the blurb and if you'd . . .
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July 26, 2007 11:34 PM EDT --
Since my first book was released today in ebook format, I thought I would take the time to give you some good reasons to buy an ebook if you've never tried it before. I'll start with a few good . . .
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August 03, 2007 02:58 PM EDT --
I felt a need to make a clarification because of some things I read. My recent release, THE GREATER GOOD, is out in ebook format. It is not self published. I am paid royalties and have invested none . . .
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August 03, 2007 10:28 PM EDT --
I think every beginning novelist dreams of being able to write full time. No 9-5 job, sit at the computer anytime you want. Wear old sweat pants around, drink coffee from a big wide mug and send off the . . .
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