Last night, while reading Hemingway: A Biography by Jeffrey Meyers, I came to what I consider the best part in any literary biography: a breakdown of the subject’s writing process. Even if reading the biography of an author I don’t necessarily enjoy, I’m always fascinated by the way they work and the approach they take when hunkering down with a manuscript.
I’m a little bit hooked on Flavorwire – they turn up some amazing, inspiring creative content. Like this list of Henry Miller’s tips on how to be a writer.
Henry Miller Library, Big Sur
COMMANDMENTS
1. Work on one thing at a time until finished. 2. Start no more new books, add no more new material to “Black Spring.” 3.
Reblogged from Brian James Freeman:
The other day I realized this blog had passed 20,000 hits, which I thought was pretty cool!
As my way of saying thanks to everyone who has stopped by, I’m giving my eBook short story collection Seven Stories away for FREE on Amazon for this week only.
US link: http://amzn.to/SevenStories UK link: http://amzn.to/SevenStoriesUK Germany link: http://amzn.to/SevenStoriesGerman
If you have a…
How Do You Not Respond to Comments?
When celebrities do this, they have a reason. When an ordinary blogger does this, it’s just not right.
This totally drives me crazy. I know and I admit that different people have different reasons to blog. But most of the bloggers out there, who post publicly and leave the comment form open, have a common goal of being read and commented on.
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Posted by roger engle on January 31, 2012 in Authors, Blogs, Writing
Tags: AIS Journal, Blog, Comments, Negative feedback, Social Media