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Writing

Writing Hacks, Part 1: Starting – scottberkun.com

September 7, 2006

Here’s some good advice for overcoming the state of writerly paralysis commonly referred to as “writer’s block.” As Scott Berkun points out, “writer’s block” is a misnomer for attention deficit disorder, laziness, or maybe even fear of writing. “It’s not the fear of writing that blocks people, it’s fear of not writing well; something quite [...]

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Los Angeles Times: A writer unblocked

May 7, 2006

A Screenwriter Takes To Novel Writing Wesley Strick is a screenwriter whose credits include “Cape Fear” (1991) and “Return to Paradise” (1998). His first novel, “Out There in the Dark,” was published this year by St. Martin’s Press. A few years ago, I called the guy at my agent’s office who handles book projects to [...]

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Michiko Kakutani By Ben Yagoda

April 11, 2006

Many authors fear Michiko Kakutani, book critic for the daily edition of The New York Times, because if she doesn’t like your book she can make you wish you’d gone into the heating and air conditioning business. Slate’s Ben Yagoda takes a more balanced view and assesses her twenty-five years of reviewing books at The [...]

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Plagiarism?

March 7, 2006

Albert Einstein said, “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” In Plagiary, It’s Crawling All Over Me, Joseph Epstein examines “the blurry line between a paraphrase and a lift.”

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Would My Book Make A Good Movie?

February 23, 2006

Books and movies are two different languages. To compare the two is like comparing pottery and stained glass. –Russel Banks Probably half the movies made in Hollywood are adaptations of stories that originally appeared as novels, nonfiction books, comic books, short stories, plays, poems, or what have you. Hollywood studios and production companies aggressively scan [...]

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