Reclaim the Slush
Tag: On writing
Writer Beware
Most UK authors’ annual incomes are well below the minimum wage.
Slush Pile Blues
Hide that First Draft
‘The first draft is just you telling yourself the story,’ according to Terry Pratchett. Ernest Hemingway said, ‘The first draft of anything is shit.’ While Stephen King believes a first draft ‘should take no more than three months’.
HOW TO GET PUBLISHED
Threats to Literature
Last week the Guardian reported that novelist Joanna Trollope considers JK Rowling’s use of Twitter to be a threat to literature. Trollope was chatting at a London literary party at the time and it was probably the posh equivalent of pub talk, but what are the real threats to literature?
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