* Fiction
Writers, Skip the Paris Cafes and Get a Good Pen - Word Craft - http://ow.ly/e6AuR
Not so sure I
want to give up Paris cafes and I hate writing my novels in longhand!
* Women, Men And
Fiction: Notes On How Not To Answer Hard Questions : NPR - http://ow.ly/e7Df9
I love this: “Nothing
is more vexing than a question where 10 percent of the public discussion is
spent trying to answer it and 90 percent is spent arguing about whether it
matters. Such is the question of why, in many major publications, far more
books by men are reviewed than books by women.”
* Why the
Internet and Ebooks Are Changing Publishing and Writing for the Better:
http://ow.ly/e9RD7
Vitriol, fear
and reactionary responses abound around the changes going on in publishing.
* 90+ Published
Novels Began as NaNoWriMo Projects - GalleyCat http://ow.ly/ecYnn
Every month is
NaNoWriMo for me but I’m all for people participating!
* Being a
cartoonist is a bit like being a writer of very, very short stories: The New
Yorker http://ow.ly/edtmt
There are some
funny New Yorker jokes about writing here.
*In defense of
#chicklit: "I wrote a book about a woman, for women, and I’m proud."
- Slate Magazine http://ow.ly/ehzEW
Still people are
forced to “defend” chicklit.