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Monthly Archives: December 2009

Freelance Writing - Finding a Market

December 25, 2009 – 11:45 am

 
Journalists so clumsy that, in the graphic phrase of a short grass poet, “they seem to write with their feet,” sell manuscripts with clock-like regularity to first-class markets. The magazines, like the newspapers, employ “re-write men” to take crude manuscripts to pieces, rebuild them and give them a presentable polish. The matter of prime importance [...]

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Writers on Writing

December 4, 2009 – 9:22 pm

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. - W. H. Auden
You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it’s always just one person encountering the book, it’s not an audience, it’s one to one. - Paul Auster
The book is your book. You have been [...]

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