Laid Low
It’s been a slow week around here as far as Slushpile.net goes. On Tuesday evening, what I thought was going to be just a common everyday flu bug ended up sending me to the emergency room. Wednesday and Thursday consisted of just brief periods of alertness as I slept off the elephant-tranquilizer effects of…
continue readingPile Up Pages While Not Peeing
Maud Newton noticed this unusual bit of writing advice from the late Charles Willeford: “Never allow yourself to take a leak in the morning until you’ve written a page. That way you’re guaranteed a page a day, and at the end of a year you have a novel.”
continue readingOn Small Presses
The always informative Miss Snark has some fantastic advice for what to do if you have a couple small presses vying to publish your book. Her post contains lots of great info on how, no matter how dedicated they might be, all small presses are not equal.
continue readingSoul Patrol on Pages
The invaluable Publishers Marketplace reported on Friday that recent American Idol winner Taylor Hicks signed a book deal. The project was described as “an inspirational book presenting lessons from his decades-long path to success, striving against long odds.” The book is scheduled for publication in early 2007 to coincide with the release of Hicks’ albumn. Rick Horgan…
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If yesterday’s “severed hand found in nude dancer’s home” wasn’t enough to get your creative juices flowing, the try The Story Starter. I learned about this random sentence generator from John Dufresne’s blog and it looks like it will provide hours of entertainment. My story starter sentence? “The attractive scientist alerted the police inside the diner…
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