Writing Resources - #10
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Round-up of current competitions. Some have entry fees.
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Writing, editing and publishing help. This weblog links to useful resources on the Internet and on Weblogs to help writers.Archive for December, 2006
The law of unintended consequences
Chark Blog - The law of unintended consequences
About large advances to authors, or not.
Buzz, Balls & Hype : Happy New Year
Buzz, Balls & Hype : Happy New Year
See the link for “Backstory” and the Santa letters. Important for authors.
Deadline: January 4th
Write From Karen » Deadline: January 4th
Win a free book via the link. As the title says, deadline 4 January.
Book Reviews from Bill Peschel
Book Reviews from Bill Peschel
Review by excellent blogger Bill Peschel of “How I Write” by Janet Evanovich and another.
Learning to Write XV - John Baker’s Blog
Learning to Write XV - John Baker’s Blog
How to write your second (published) novel
The Silver Eel: science and poetry
Not Andrew Motion, but William Wordsworth:
If the labours of men of Science should ever create any material revolution, direct or indirect, in our condition, and in the impressions which we habitually receive, the Poet will sleep then no more than at present, but he will be ready to follow the steps of the Man of Science, not only in those general indirect effects, but he will be at his side, carrying sensation into the midst of the objects of the Science itself.
A quote I’d never come across before, in Andrew Rutherford’s preface to the Oxford World’s Classics edition of Kim. The context is praise of Kipling as a “bard of engineering and technology”. Not how we usually think of him, but Rutherford cites the poem ‘McAndrew’s Hymn’ and the stories ‘The Ship that Found Herself’ and ‘Bread upon the Waters’ “in which he shows imaginative sympathy with the machines themselves as well as sympathy with the men who serve them”.
Learning to Write XIV - John Baker’s Blog
Learning to Write XIV - John Baker’s Blog
“If you are going to be a novelist you will gather your courage together and go to a keyboard and a screen or a piece of blank paper and try to write down what was in your dream and perhaps what is still quite clear in your mind.”
