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A New Approach to Book Promo
Blogging for Characters By Laird Harrison As promised in yesterday’s post, this is an example of using the capabilities of the internet to not only keep your first book alive, but to connect with...
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If There Were a Literary Draft
Mixed Reviews on 2012 Literary Draft By Ross Howell Ross Howell is a non-fiction and fiction writer teaching at Elon University. He lives in Greensboro, NC, and tries not to get too caught up in the...
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Eric Olsen Interview
Anyone who’s read We Wanted to Be Writers, or visited this site with regularity, knows how much Eric likes to hold forth. Combine that with Diane Prokop’s unconventional questions, and the result’s...
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Eric Olsen on Writing
A Good Question Is a Terrible Thing to Waste By Eric Olsen A while back, writer/book reviewer Diane Prokop conducted an extensive interview with Eric and ran a portion of it on her website. She has...
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Professional Practices: Part 1
Can Workshops Change with the Times? By Eric Olsen Is the standard model of the writers’ workshop at all relevant any longer? I’m starting to have my doubts. I think the disaggregation (or...
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Professional Practices: Part 2
Conflicting Views By Eric Olsen In my previous post, I talked about the panel discussion I moderated at the AWP meeting in Boston titled “What We Wish We’d Known.” Panelists included four Iowa...
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Professional Practices: Part 3
Looking Ahead By Eric Olsen In a couple previous posts, I argued that the disaggregation (or disintegration) of the traditional, highly centralized publishing biz that mediates between the writer and...
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Literature: Dead Again?
. . . Or Maybe Not By Eric Olsen A recent New York Times column by Scott Turow, the attorney, novelist, and head of the Author’s Guild, is titled “The Slow Death of the American Author.” I was tempted...
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How Should Writers Act in Public?
Finding Your Inner Extrovert By Eric Olsen Not long ago, as the date of a talk I was to give about the creative process drew closer, I found myself becoming more and more nervous. Like a lot of...
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Simple Prose
Are We Dumbing Down Our Lit? by Eric Olsen A recent New York Times article titled “To Lure Young Readers, Nonfiction Writers Sanitize and Simplify” caught my attention. Ok, cold cocked me. It’s about...
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