The career novelist
1 CHAPTER The Dream WHY WRITE NOVELS? SURPRISINGLY, MANY PEOPLE UNDERTAKE NOVEL WRITING NOT because they want to, but because th ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST The truth is that every writer is sometimes reluctant to write. An empty sheet in the typewriter—or, these d ...
The dream they are self-explanatory, I hope. The fourth, self-esteem, means valu- ing oneself and being valued by others. The fi ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST special to say. I do not mean those who want to preach, or practice politics; their writing does not move me ...
The dream if not an edge then at least a head start. As in most things in life, we are all created equal in rights but unequal i ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST ter, command of theme, contemporary settings, and current styles. No doubt about it: M.F.A.'s write lovely s ...
The dream the fiction that followed: John Le Carre was a spy; John Grisham is a lawyer; Robin Cook is a doctor. Others' fiction ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST ists, too, bring a wonderful facility with words, but the same state- ment can also be made of lawyers, copy ...
The dream relationships so that they will recreate their childhood traumas. The purpose is to resolve old hurts in new relations ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST I am grateful that people seek out my business skills, of course, but frankly it is strange to hear such cap ...
The dream do not want their loved one to get hurt. Thus, the first hint of conflict appears, and with it a slight sinking sensat ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST This is the point at which many writers begin to indulge in win- ning-the-lottery fantasies. They dream of o ...
The dream a bad contract with the wrong publisher, can be fatal. There is more discussion of these situations later in this book ...
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CH The 2 APTER Reality THE BAD NEWS ABOUT BOOK PUBLISHING MOST WRITERS TODAY ARE AWARE THAT BOOK PUBLISHING HAS become a big bus ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST Nowadays most editorial departments must answer to high cor- porate masters. Although such masters run large ...
The reality All that changed in the seventies, the decade of the second paperback revolution. Covers improved, paper grades got ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST only brought books to millions of new customers but also made hardcovers affordable with generous discount p ...
The reality still largely located in New York, but thanks to computers the locus of power is the superstore bookshelf. Hard/soft ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST If all this stuff sounds gloomy, it is. But the picture is not entire- ly bleak. THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT BOOK PU ...
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