Many people write to tell their stories. A successful writer has to learn how to tell everyone else’s story. This isn’t selling out, it is connecting yourself to the world so that your writing becomes bigger than yourself.
Monthly Archives: June 2007
Community
I’d like to include a pointer to a recent article I posted on the essential elements of community:
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewarticle.asp?id=30576
Why is such a thing needed? Everyone has a different definition of “community”. Most of these definitions are not all that useful when it comes to evaluating whether or not a project enhances community or not.
Minor Leagues
Think of book agents as something akin to baseball talent scouts. These are the guys who sit in the bleachers at high school games and generally just watch. What are they looking for? What interests them more, raw talent or hustle? What brings them here, and will they be back? A real player who wants to “make it” needs to know.
For the Kids
Why on earth would anyone want to be a writer?
In my case, I avoided the idea for many years. I won a few contests as a kid, and genuinely enjoyed writing. But none of it was really for the public. It was simply something I did. Is there a career based on breathing?
Wurst Writing
“Laws are like sausages. It’s better not to see them being made.”
Otto von Bismark understood both well, being a German and a politician. What he could have included in this homily is writing.
Barataria - The work of Erik Hare 