There’s an important follow-up to my posts about retiring a novel/book to the trunk. If you didn’t read those, they are here and here. We’ll wait.
Okay, are we all on the same page? Great!
There are two kinds of trunk novels:
1) the kind that should never, ever see the light of day again
2) the kind that [...]
Archive for October, 2009
The Proper Care and Feeding of a Trunk Novel
Posted in Publishing, Writing, tagged logline, Publishing, trunk novel, Writing on October 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Are you a real writer? Am I a real writer? What *IS* a real writer anyway?
Posted in Publishing, Writing, tagged Publishing, Writing on October 14, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The “are you a real writer” debate is one I’ve witnessed more times that I can count in my sixteen or so years in this business. For the most part, I think it’s people letting their egos talk a little too loudly.
If you write every day, and what you write is unpublishable, are you a [...]