The Wednesday Web Browser for Writers
Welcome to the Wednesday collection of gleanings from the Web:
Welcome to the Wednesday collection of gleanings from the Web:
This post should really be titled “Quotations of the Week,” because I’m sending you to an item on WritersDigest.comthat features a number of thought-provoking quotations from author Andre Dubus III.
Here is the quotation that’s probably my favorite:
“Even a day writing badly for me is 10 times better than a day where I don’t write at all.”
See which one(s) resonate with you.
This Writermag.com service article is aimed toward short story writers and novelists, but I think that at least some of the suggested self-editing questions translate across the genres. In any case, I hope that you will find it useful.
Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend. See you back here on Monday.
So, let’s start with the good news from my writing world this week: The latest installment of my “First Looks” column for Fiction Writers Review went live. Plus: I received a lovely email from a woman who had just finished reading Quiet Americans and who then posted a five-star review on Amazon.
The bad: a litmag rejection that disappointed me more than I anticipated it would.
The ugly: some unpleasant hijacking of my Facebook author page. Nothing I can’t handle. Just some garden-variety unpleasantness. And a reason to think more about the issues that many of us were talking about last week.