writers

A cheery note for aspiring trad-published writers. The market may well be increasingly fragmented but there is hope! https://brevity.wordpress.com/2024/12/20/publishing-is-alive-and-well/

I have tons of regrets, but I think that's one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers. Sylvester Stallone

I’m pleased to say that we can again handle gift memberships. Litopia is nothing if not a warm, cohesive community, and the best way we can continue to grow while ensuring we stay true to our roots is to ask members (er, that’s you!) to spread the word among your friends and like-minded folk...

I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it. Charles Kuralt

https://www.bbc.co.uk/writers?fbclid=IwY2xjawFp1lZleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHfkyMv3YqL6XagdSQxl_yfVcVOleHS31-2YQNOpOEeCKXZEX4ix0VK12-w_aem_Y40T__T7aMYFGSnCtDUqnA

“If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works, with all the misconceptions, the omissions, the failures that any finished work of art implies.” John Don Passos

Are in the news today... https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/michelle-paver-among-13-authors-featured-in-ghost-story-collection-from-sphere Will discuss the issues surrounding anthologies in the Huddle if requested. :) p.

Royal Road is partnering with publishers to help writers on their site. https://www.royalroad.com/blog/70/introducing-a-new-publishing-program

Writers have problems writing sex scenes, because writing one really well is pornography. Fran Lebowitz

"Writers are not here to conform. We are here to challenge." Jeanette Winterson

'Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a sombre graveyard of dead books.' Carlos Fuentes

If writers were good businessmen, they’d have too much sense to be writers. Irvin S. Cobb

All writers know how important a good title is. It's the first thing readers see, along with a knock-your-socks-off cover - a seductive 'come hither' for the story within. Caroline Leavitt

'Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy...

“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither...

Writers are always anxious, always on the run—from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world. Edna O’Brien

Writers will moan, ‘You don’t know how lonely it is, how hard it is...’ You love it, you liar, you fucking love it, you’re on your eighteenth book. Sure, there will be some tough days, some shitty days during the process, but you know it’s a thing that once you get going, it won’t feel like...

Some writers won’t read a word of any novel while they’re writing their own. Not one word. They don’t even want to see the cover of a novel. As they write, the world of fiction dies: no one has ever written, no one is writing, no one will ever write again. Try to recommend a good novel to a...

'Writers Are Insane. For months we are lone wolves locked in our caves. Then overnight we become publicity hounds. It's a schizophrenic business.' Robert Mykle

'I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.' Anita Diamant