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Maybe You're Already A Writer By Lee Child |
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Mystery novels, crime novels, suspense novels, detective novels, label them as you wish - but they all need characters, and characters need occupations. Plots need context, and details need authenticity. Read widely and you’ll see how today’s writers meet these needs by drawing on their own previous professional experiences. But what mechanism is in use? I think you’ll see that the process breaks down into three categories: direct, indirect, and contextual. A direct influence is pretty straightforward: a real-life surgeon might write a mystery with a fictional surgeon as the main character; or a psychiatrist might write about a psychiatrist; or a lawyer might (and indeed they have, in their hundreds) write about a lawyer. Indirect influence is similar: an ER nurse might write about a trauma surgeon by drawing on direct observation and stepping up a rung or two; a civilian employee of a police department might write about a beat cop; a beat cop might write about a detective lieutenant. A detective lieutenant might write about a CIA operative. Indirect influence tends to be upward and lateral in focus. |
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PUBLISHING IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY - Part One by Richard Curtis |
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AT THE END OF THE MILLENNIUM Like a world held between the gravitational pulls of two stars, the publishing industry is suspended between two great paradigms. One is the familiar industrial model built around tangible objects: bound volumes of paper manufactured on printing presses, warehoused in depots, transported in vehicles and sold in stores; the other, newly born, can be described as virtual. The sun of traditional publishing and bookselling has illuminated and warmed us for a millennium, but it is unquestionably fading, while the other, fueled by the prospect of direct communication between authors and readers independent of physical means of manufacture and distribution, scintillates with possibilities. In the balance lies the fate of one of civilization’s most precious artifacts, the book. |
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A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO GETTING PUBLISHED by Jeff Kleinman |
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STEP #1: Write Your Project & Develop Your Credentials.
 Seems like two steps, doesn’t it? It’s not – or at least it may not be. You need to write (or perhaps just develop) the project, and at the same time, you need to make it clear (first to yourself; and then to others) that you’re the best person to be writing it in the first place.
This means having the writing “muscles” to do the job, as well as having the expertise to prove it.
Step #1A: Write The Project • Fiction: write the entire book (most novels are generally between 90K-120K words), rewrite as necessary.
• Nonfiction: Write a proposal (outline + a sample chapter or two), rewrite as necessary.
Step #1B: Develop Your Credentials
• Fiction: Publish! Win awards, grants. Try to give the appearance of a writer whose career is really taking off. |
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