Posts by Joshin
First, I doubt that I would ever seek out a blog related to a "Costume Company." I suspect there might be a few others like me. That being said, what is THEIR take-away? If you are not GIVING the...
First choose the genre that you intend to write. Find a good example of this genre. (even better than the printed page is a movie or tv show) Pick a scene and transcribe the dialog. It might sou...
Your fun has just started. Look at the first three chapters. Look at the first sentence. Look at the first five pages. Each of these are critical if you want to sell it. Do not even bother with a...
The database layout is sufficiently similar across source data formats that we can write a single SQL query to export each output data format. The data structure of the database will allow the use...
If you've lost interest there is a good chance that an agent/audience will too. Put it away and try to write something else. We all have works in "non-progress." Better to find out now; it will dec...
If you have a notion that something is wrong then your "block" is that the method you have chosen is frustrating you. Stop! You have found a way that you are not comfortable writing even if as you ...
As someone mentioned earlier- anything can be published. If the real question is will a publisher pay you anything to publish it-The answer is will enough people pay money for the work to allow t...
McCarthy did it because his writing is strong enough to allow him to get away with it. James Joyce did it too. My fellow students in fourth grade also wrote with little or no punctuation. As far ...
If the publisher thinks it's a good idea they ought to tell their marketer to set one up and ask you to approve the content. Isn't that what the job of a marketer is- to market your book? If YOU w...
Read. Read more. Listen. Listen more. Luckily, there is no one place to suggest as an answer. If there was- the language would be dying.
