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Why My New Book Bombed | The Incompetent Writer
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Getting better at writing, the slow way. Why My New Book Bombed. Wrote a successful book:. That book has sold, according to his site, over twenty-five thousand copies, despite competing against a vast array of free and semi-free guides to the extremely popular and well known Evernote. Then he wrote and released a second book,. The Art and Science of Vaping. This was a total failure. First, it feels really good to have written and shipped a second book. Read the whole post. My two-second take: I have to a...
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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Keats | The Incompetent Writer
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Getting better at writing, the slow way. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Keats. Keats’s life and work offer some intriguing lessons for writers. This is the first four lines of “Ode to Psyche,” written in the spring of 1819:. One morn before me were three figures seen,. With bowed necks, and joined hands, side-faced;. And one behind the other stepp’d serene,. In placid sandals, and in white robes graced;. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,. Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;. Over and ove...
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My Fiction | The Incompetent Writer
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Getting better at writing, the slow way. This story, “My Arctic Circle,” was recently published by Inkwell Magazine. Because Inkwell doesn’t publish online, I’m posting it here. It’s about 4,500 words. If you like stories about magic foxes, divorce, and ecology, you might enjoy it. Gave the story a valuable line-edit, helping me spot and cut out the boring unnecessaries. On Friday, Megan emailed, saying she would collect some final things. On Sunday she arrived with Angela, and they moved the content...
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Daniel | The Incompetent Writer
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Getting better at writing, the slow way. Arriving with a Wail and a Yarp. This is Tobiah. He is three days old. He is my son. Parenthood I am learning is wonderful but involves very little sleep. My wife and I are recovering, recuperating in the hospital while we get to know this new and amazing addition to our lives. Thou must be patient; we came crying hither:. Thou know’st, the first time that we smell the air,. We wawl and cry…. I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,. August 24, 2016.
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Magic and Mrs. Dalloway: Are You Trying to Imitate Virginia Woolf? | The Incompetent Writer
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Getting better at writing, the slow way. Magic and Mrs. Dalloway: Are You Trying to Imitate Virginia Woolf? I was lucky enough to have that experience a week ago. In our fiction class with the novelist Michael Knight. We were reading and discussing Virginia Woolf’s. For instance, I read paragraphs like this one, knowing as I read just how remarkable it was (this is an early moment in the novel. Clarissa Dalloway is walking in London, remembering her old friend Peter, long since departed to India):. Later...
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Getting better at writing, the slow way. Quiz on Your Writing Priorities. I’m about to start teaching a fiction writing class at the University of Tennessee. To help me design my syllabus, I emailed my students and asked them a few questions. In particular, I asked what they most wanted to write, and what they liked to read. Here’s quiz, below. I’m curious: what would your answers be? Welcome to this class on the writing of fiction. Question 1: what do you most want to write? D: Anything good, really.
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Ben Marcus Takes A Reading Holiday | The Incompetent Writer
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Getting better at writing, the slow way. Ben Marcus Takes A Reading Holiday. I really enjoyed this interview, over at Flavorwire. With Ben Marcus. His responses are interesting throughout, including his comments towards the end about experimental fiction. When he is asked about the long process of creating a new anthology of short fiction,. It’s strange, as one gets older, that reading becomes more of an effort. Is that simply because life gets more complex? Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click...
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computer code | The Incompetent Writer
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Getting better at writing, the slow way. Tag Archives: computer code. Jane Austen, Programming Languages, and Being That Guy in the Writing Class. Did you read the Buzzfeed piece that came out last month, about writing workshops and. 8220; If Jane Austen Got Feedback From Some Guy In A Writing Workshop. Photo credit: Buzzfeed and Dan Meth. You should. It’s very funny. I don’t usually read chick lit, but I didn’t hate reading this draft of your novel, which you’re calling. And the story will be so improved.
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buzzfeed | The Incompetent Writer
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Getting better at writing, the slow way. Jane Austen, Programming Languages, and Being That Guy in the Writing Class. Did you read the Buzzfeed piece that came out last month, about writing workshops and. 8220; If Jane Austen Got Feedback From Some Guy In A Writing Workshop. Photo credit: Buzzfeed and Dan Meth. You should. It’s very funny. I don’t usually read chick lit, but I didn’t hate reading this draft of your novel, which you’re calling. And the story will be so improved. Have you read Hamlet?