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Put my butt in the chair and start doing something. Give yourself permission to write badly and fix it later.
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Life After Booktrope
Some of you may know that my beloved publisher, Booktrope, ceased publication on May 31.
The publishing business has always been tough. It’s an industry that shouldn’t exist, economically speaking. But it survives and even thrives because of the authors, editors, agents, designers and other professionals who make the crazy bargain to make little or no money in order to see great stori
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“1. Write like you’ll live forever — fear is a bad editor.
2. Write like you’ll croak today — death is the best editor.
3. Fooling others is fun. Fooling yourself is a lethal mistake.
4. Pick one — fame or delight.
5. The archer knows the target. The poet knows the wastebasket.
6. Cunning and excess are your friends.
7. TV and liquor are your enemies.
8. Everything eternal happens in a spare room at 3 a.m.
9. You’re done when the crows sing.”
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2. Write like you’ll croak today — death is the best editor.
3. Fooling others is fun. Fooling yourself is a lethal mistake.
4. Pick one — fame or delight.
5. The archer knows the target. The poet knows the wastebasket.
6. Cunning and excess are your friends.
7. TV and liquor are your enemies.
8. Everything eternal happens in a spare room at 3 a.m.
9. You’re done when the crows sing.”
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“I hate writing, I love having written.”
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“If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.”
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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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