Posts Tagged ‘writers’
A Chapter is A Chapter
Posted by: claireflaire on: November 30, 2010
- In: writing
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James Patterson and Robert B. Parker’s are 2 or 3 pages. Any Rand’s run as long as 35. Most writers are somewhere in between. Me, I’m always struggling with knowing when to end a chapter and start the next one. In my research to find a rule for how long a chapter should be, I’ve [...]
What Do You Do for a Living?
Posted by: claireflaire on: September 7, 2010
- In: writing
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I’m a novelist. I’m an essayist. I’m a columnist. I’m a journalist. I’m a reporter. I’m a wordsmith. I’m an author. I’m a poet. I’m a playwright. I’m a freelancer. What do you do for a living? This question has bewildered those in the writing field for centuries. I suspect Shakespeare, Dickinson, Hemingway, Angelou [...]
Reading the Classics
Posted by: claireflaire on: May 18, 2010
One of the first questions Drusilla Campbell asks her writing students is: “What are you reading?” If you are a writer, Campbell assumes you are an avid reader. To become a better writer, she encourages you to read — and read a lot — in a variety of genres, not just the one you write [...]
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