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Advice for Writers
  • Alpha by Author
    • So you want to be a writer? by CHARLES BUKOWSKI
    • Steps to Getting Published by JANET EVANOVICH
    • For Writers by JANE GREEN
    • THE GUARDIAN's Ten Rules for Writing Fiction | Authors share their personal dos and don'ts
    • ERNEST HEMINGWAY’s Top 5 Tips For Writing Well
    • Easy on the Hooptedoodle by ELMORE LEONARD
    • Publishing Advice from JEN LANCASTER
    • Blog of MISS SNARK, The Literary Agent
    • Pub Rants | A Blog by Literary Agent KRISTIN NELSON
    • NYT's WRITERS ON WRITING | A series in which writers explore literary themes
    • I Will Not Read Your Fucking Script by JOSH OLSON
    • JENNIFER WEINER's Advice for Writers
    • How to Write With Style by KURT VONNEGUT
Quotes On Writing
  • "The first draft of everything is shit." — Ernest Hemingway
  • "I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out." — Oscar Wilde.
  • "Easy reading is damn hard writing." — Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • "Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be." — Mark Twain
  • Writer Friends

    Some I know, some I don't, all inspire me!
    • Jen Lancaster
      NYT best-selling author of BITTER IS THE NEW BLACK; BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG ASS; SUCH A PRETTY FAT; PRETTY IN PLAID; and MY FAIR LAZY
    • Sarah Grace McCandless
      Author of GROSSE POINTE GIRL and THE GIRL I WANTED TO BE
    • Caprice Crane
      Author of STUPID AND CONTAGIOUS, FORGET ABOUT IT, and FAMILY AFFAIR
    • Marian Keyes
      NYT best-selling author of over a dozen books, Blurbed SAVE KARYN
    • Gitty Daneshvari
      Author of THE MAKEDOWN and SCHOOL OF FEAR
    • Jolene Siana
      Author of the memoir GO ASK OGRE
    • Julie Klam
      Author of the hilarious PLEASE EXCUSE MY DAUGHTER
    • Emma Straub
      Author of the awesome little novella FLY-OVER STATE
    • Mary Ann Zoellner
      Author of TODAY'S MOMS, Producer at NBC's Today
    • Eva Nagorski
      Author of THE DOWN AND DIRTY DISH ON REVENGE: SERVING IT UP NICE AND COLD TO THAT LYING, CHEATING BASTARD, Former co-worker of mine
    • Laurie Sandell
      Contributing editor for GLAMOUR and author of THE IMPOSTER'S DAUGHTER
    • Blake Nelson
      Author of eight books including PARANOID PARK and GIRL, both of which became feature films
    • Allison Winn Scotch
      NYT best-selling author of TIME OF MY LIFE, THE DEPARTMENT OF LOST & FOUND, and THE ONE THAT I WANT
    • Marcy Dermansky
      Author of TWINS and BAD MARIE
    • Melisa Wells
      Author of REMEMBERING RUBY
    • Tatiana Boncompagni
      Author of HEDGE FUND WIVES and GILDING LILY
    • Janelle Brown
      Author of the national bestseller ALL WE EVER WANTED WAS EVERYTHING and THIS IS WHERE WE LIVE, Interviewed me eons ago for Salon.com
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