The Business of Writing: Jane Friedman, Kristen Lamb
In order to make connections with readers, a writer today needs to do a lot more than get an agent to believe in her work and pitch it to publishers.
The Value of Mentors: ‘Literature on the Lawn’
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Flyer for the teen ‘Literature on the Lawn’ reading. Mentor Through Celebration As all the work and celebration of the teen issue of the Inlandia: A Literary Journey Journal concludes, I want to reflect one more time on the value … Continued
An Author’s Brand—Some Helpful Hints
I’m living through silting layers of bad news recently. I worked on an essay about sources in nature that help me to make sense of my interior world and thought I’d post it here—but my essay on how to make … Continued
Moby-Dick: The birth of the great white whale engenders thoughts about staging fiction
Today is the anniversary of the publication of Moby-Dick in 1851. So I was thinking about that novel when I happened to read Jane Friedman’s blog post “What Writers can Learn about Voice from Opera.” * While these two things … Continued