Dana sez–I only wish I’d had this list when I began writing, but 40-ish novels later, I do have a few things figured out. I don’t follow all these rules slavishly. I say begin with the murder but…often I don’t. Every writer does things differently, so don’t take how someone else writes as your template.…
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Dana sez, he’s writing about visual artists but most of this is useful for writers, too. Especially Admit It’s a Business The number one mistake I see artists make is not accepting that they run a business. If you cannot accept and even embrace this simple fact, you are totally hosed. It is hard to…
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These days AI is the elephant in every writer’s room. On June 27th, Jacqueline Winspear (author most famously of the Maisie Dobbs series) weighed in on the topic on her Facebook page. She gave me permission to repost it in full here, which I do because if AI isn’t part of #thiswritinglife these days nothing…
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Because what the gatekeepers are recommending people read is also part of #thiswritinglife… Yesterday NPR ran a piece on recommended nonfiction reads for the summer. The list included A bio of Gisèle Pelicot, the woman in France whose husband drugged her and then let all his friends rape her a book on critical race theory…
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This is why I belong to the Authors Guild in a nutshell: They go to D.C. so I don’t have to. From the AG newsletter: Authors Go to Washington: The Authors Guild Takes the AI Copyright Fight to Capitol Hill June 2, 2026 Excerpts: On May 20 and 21, Authors Guild legal staff and board members went…
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Who needs AI when we have Tom Gauld? Do carry on in the comments below. More at Tom Gauld’s website, all of it great.
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