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How Much Are You Willing to Change to Publish Your Book?

September 14, 2015 By Joan Curtis Leave a Comment

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Recently I heard one of my favorite writers, Ron Rash, speak at the Decatur Book Festival… Click To Tweet During the talk he shared an example of something that happened to him early in his career. A big publisher offered to pick up his book but asked him to rewrite the story from the point […]

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Filed Under: Marketing for Writers, Writing Tips Tagged With: fiction, Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee, publishing, Reader's Digest, Ron Rash, To Kill a Mockingbird, Writing

#YouKnowYouAreAWriterWhen

July 6, 2015 By Joan Curtis 6 Comments

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Recently I’ve been tweeting with the hashtag #YouKnowYouAreAWriterWhen. It’s been fun thinking about how do we know we’re writers. Or, the better question: when does it hit us we are writers? Is it when we’ve published something? Is it when we spend most of our time writing? For me, I began thinking I might be […]

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Filed Under: Fiction Writing, My Thoughts, The Business of Writing Tagged With: confidence, fiction, nonfiction, publishing, Reader's Digest, Writing, youknowyouareawriterwhen

Flash Fiction–A Challenging Way to Write

May 5, 2014 By Joan Curtis Leave a Comment

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As a novel writer, I find writing flash fiction daunting. That’s why I’m determined to give it a go. When I looked up how to define flash fiction, I learned that it can be anything from 75 words to 1000 words. The purpose is to say what you want to say in as few words […]

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Filed Under: Writing Tips Tagged With: david gaffney, flashfiction, Reader's Digest, The Guardian

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