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Editor's Picks
Get Organized, Get Published! : 225 Ways to Make Time for Success
by Don Aslett, Carol Cartaino
Before settling down to write about this book, I
checked my e-mail. I searched for a vintage pedestal sink online. I looked at
the weather forecast for the weekend, and I glanced at my town's electronic
message board. I even contemplated cleaning off my desk. And all the while, I
imagined Don Aslett, in his ordered universe, typing away at one of his 40
books-in-progress. For Get Organized, Get Published! Aslett and coauthor
Carol Cartaino offer advice on creating a writing agenda and a "getting
published action plan"; they'll help you organize your workplace, research,
market attack, career, even the writing process itself.
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Word by Word : An Inspirational Look at the Craft of Writing
by John Tullius, et al
Every year, in late summer, writers of fiction,
nonfiction, and screenplays gather on the island of Maui, along with editors
and agents, for the Maui Writers Conference. Word by Word presents the
written version of 36 Maui Conference talks, by such disparate authors as
Ridley Pearson, Nicholas Sparks, Mitch Albom, Jackie Collins, and
"autobiographer" Eric Marcus (Breaking the Surface). Some of these lectures
are considered and well-formed; others have an off-the-cuff feel. The
mishmash is somewhat jarring, but there are plenty of choice cuts in the
mix.
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Keeping a Journal You Love
by Sheila Bender
There are three layers to Keeping a Journal You
Love. For the first, author Sheila Bender (The Writer's Journal) collected
journal entries from 15 American poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction
writers--no mean feat, considering the way most people who keep journals
squirrel away their ragged little notebooks. For the next layer, Bender asked those
writers to comment on their journals, and on "how journaling helps them stay
productive." Finally, Bender writes about both the journal entries and the
commentary, creating a context from which the rest of us can learn to keep fertile
journals.
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Chicken Soup for the Writer's Soul : Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit of Writers (Chicken Soup for the Soul)
by Jack Canfield (Editor), et al
Chicken Soup for the Writer's Soul anthologizes
80 stories of heartwarming writerly success. As is the trademark of the Chicken
Soup series, these are feel-good stories about unforgettable relatives,
encouraging teachers, serendipitous encounters, memorable experiences, positive
outlooks, and, yes, seemingly unbearable adversity. Consuming the whole
tureen's worth at once might be a bit much, but a spoonful here and there will
help any struggling writer remember that they are part of a whole community of
struggling writers.
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Novel Ideas: Contemporary Authors
by Barbara Shoup, Margaret Love Denman
After introductory chapters on the elements
of fiction, the process of revision, and endurance writing come interviews with
23 contemporary novelists, the heart of Novel Ideas. These interviews, some
of which originally appeared in a journal called Other Voices, address the
differences between writing short stories and novels, the various ways in which
a novel evolves, the internal and external obstacles for the novelist, and
often--as in Valerie Martin on Mary Reilly and Sena Jeter Naslund on Ahab's
Wife--the writing of a specific fictional work. Throughout the book are
discussions about how novels are born ("Somebody starts talking in my head,"
says Dorothy Allison) and how the real world feeds the fictional
one.
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