Label: creativity
What Really Grabs Us When We Read
One of most revealing (and sometimes scary) things about brain science is how often it exposes the real reason we do something. You know, as opposed to the reason we’re absolutely positively sure we did it. Which translates to: we’re often very, very wrong. Just knowing that you might judge a stranger as either a warm or cold person, based solely on whether you’ve just held a cup of hot or iced coffee, sure can give you pause. The point … More
EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT WRITING IS WRONG — The First Part of a Series
5 Reasons Why Writers Get Bad Advice Here’s how it usually goes down: A promising writer is struggling with some aspect of her novel. When we discuss it, it turns out what’s holding her back is a piece of writing advice she’d been told to follow or — as one writer recently reported — “No publisher will ever consider your work.” It happened again today. What kills me is that, as is so often the case, the advice the writer … More
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“I’m willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else’s living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another’s brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.” – John Updike
- Jennie Nash: The Making Of A Novel
- Nathan Bransford
- Laurie Abkemeier
- Pub Rants
- Ask Allison Winn
- The Rejecter
- Miss Snark, Gone But Not Forgotten!
- Rachelle Gardner: Rants and Ramblings
- Writer Unboxed
- Meg Cabot
- Caroline Leavitt
- Slushpile
- Karin Gutman: Spirit of Story
- Blog of a Bookslut
- Balls, Buzz & Hype
- Terrible Minds: Irreverent to the Max
