Posts Tagged ‘novel’

The Horror of the First Draft

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(Or, is that a manuscript in your pocket, or are you just wasting your freakin’ life?) There is a vast difference between short story writing and novel writing. Think of it as the difference between pot and heroin—sure, it’s perfectly easy to just write a short story now and then, maybe just a bit on [...]

The Horror of the Horror Shelf

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(or, Stephanie Meyer Ate My Baby.) Listen, I’m going to confess something here that is truly, truly horrible. It is a dark secret that few souls have had the privileged terror of knowing, and one thing I don’t admit in public when I’m trying to get people to like me. It’s a monstrous secret, one [...]