This week's roundup: Blog/News Finds I got my writing start with comic books. I am fascinated by the marriage of words and pictures, and believe writers can learn so much about writing by looking at artists and listening to their take on … [Continue reading]
The Best Critique I Ever Received
This week -- Monday through Friday -- I'm talking about criticism. Monday: The Benefits of Criticism Tuesday: 5 Ways to Handle Criticism Wednesday: 5 Ways to Give Good Critiques Yesterday: Criticism -- It's Not an Editor's Job Today: The … [Continue reading]
Criticism — It’s Not an Editor’s Job
This week -- Monday through Friday -- I'm talking about criticism. Monday: The Benefits of Criticism Tuesday: 5 Ways to Handle Criticism Yesterday: 5 Ways to Give Good Critiques Today: Criticism -- It's Not an Editor's Job Friday: The Best … [Continue reading]
5 Ways to Give Good Critiques
This week -- Monday through Friday -- I'm talking about criticism. Monday: The Benefits of Criticism Tuesday: 5 Ways to Handle Criticism Today: 5 Ways to Give Good Critiques Thursday: Criticism -- It's Not an Editor's Job Friday: The Best … [Continue reading]
5 Ways to Handle Criticism
This week -- Monday through Friday -- I'm talking about criticism. Yesterday: The Benefits of Criticism. Today: 5 Ways to Handle Criticism Wednesday: 5 Ways to Give Good Critiques Thursday: Criticism -- It's Not an Editor's Job Friday: The … [Continue reading]
The Benefits of Criticism
This week -- Monday through Friday -- I'm talking about criticism. Today: The Benefits of Criticism. Tuesday: 5 Ways to Handle Criticism Wednesday: 5 Ways to Give Good Critiques Thursday: Criticism -- It's Not an Editor's Job Friday: The … [Continue reading]
Weekly Roundup (10/04/09 – 10/10/09)
The week's favorite links. Blog Finds I know people who loathe Twitter. They say it's annoying; they say they just don't get it. I think many of these people view it as a quicker replacement for Facebook and shy away. For me, Facebook is … [Continue reading]
The Juggling Writer – One Month In…
I'm one month in to The Juggling Writer. My goal was to have 12-15 posts (posting roughly 3 times a week). I wrote 22 posts (including this one), totaling 8,976 words (408-word average per post). Next week I plan to post a daily series about … [Continue reading]
Cut It Out: Eliminate These 5 Things for More Writing Time
It's been over a year since the day my wife and I were watching TV and it went out. It made a little clicking noise, and then it went black. Kaput! The TV had died. There was a moment of panic: "What will we do?! Civilization will crumble … [Continue reading]
5 Ways to Deal with Writer’s Block
You sit down to write and the words don't flow. You get frustrated and maybe check e-mail. You pace; you might even do some cleaning or watch TV. You tell yourself that you'll get back to writing after your writer's block goes away. Hours, days, … [Continue reading]
The Business of English
The American Scholar has a great article about the decline of English studies in colleges in its autumn issue. The article shows that while there's been a decline in people studying English [and other liberal arts classes], there has been a … [Continue reading]
Sarah Palin’s Ghost
Sarah Palin has a memoir coming out in November. I’ve seen people online knocking her for working with a ghostwriter. I don’t intend to ever get overtly political on The Juggling Writer unless it somehow relates directly to writing. But I’ll admit … [Continue reading]
Social Networking and the Power of Free
Earlier this week, Jason Pinter announced that he was giving his book, THE MARK, away for free as an e-book. I’ve been reading more books on my iTouch, using the Kindle app. I’d planned to read THE MARK, so I downloaded the e-book and have it for … [Continue reading]