How to Keep Writing When You’re Convinced Your Book Is a Disaster
When feeling beaten by your manuscript, come back to the page with humility and curiosity, and remember the ways that this work feeds you.
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When feeling beaten by your manuscript, come back to the page with humility and curiosity, and remember the ways that this work feeds you.
Audible has announced that machines will begin narrating its audiobooks and translating them into select languages.
Find your social buoys, practice your talking points, and if all else fails, return to the topic of shoes.
An executive editor at Scribner, previously a senior editor at Grove Atlantic, Katie Raissian talks about learning to be fearless, what grabs her in a query, and the art of publishing books.
Faculty, program type, format, and size are just a few of factors to consider when finding a school that suits who you are as a writer.
Carrying a stroller down the subway steps is a good use of your time; doomscrolling and social media are not. Fight for time for the things you love and put your writing at the top of that list.
Your internet obsessions can become your writing’s obsessions; allow those passions to animate your book.
Consider your cuts as a culling of the herd, and know that even writing which is omitted will leave its imprint on the book.
An agent with twenty years of experience selling foreign rights on both sides of the Atlantic unpacks what can appear to be a complicated and unfamiliar aspect of book publishing.