The other day, I wrote about how rejection can be actively good for writers, can really help teach us important, vital things about our work.
That’s the new place I’m in, for the most part. I’m learning all the time from my previous rejections. I feel like, in a way, I’m suddenly learning, seeing big lessons [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Another bad thing about rejection
Posted in Rejection on June 21, 2009 | 4 Comments »
In fantasy, it’s all about what the bad guy wants
Posted in Writing on June 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Writers are often told to ask themselves what does their main character want. What does he or she want in a big overarching, through-the-whole-manuscript way, and also what does he or she want in this chapter, in this scene, in this moment. And to keep in mind the concomitant questions of what then gets in [...]
Nathan Bransford frightens me
Posted in Agents, Art, Quotes on June 10, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Ha HA! Not really, of course. He’s much too charming. But last week, he posted a post to his blog that was equal parts inspiring and disturbing. The Friday Nights Lights post. Did you see it?
I’ve never seen that TV show, although I enjoyed the book it’s based on. And I also enjoyed Nathan Bransford’s [...]
Melissa Marr, Kelley Armstrong, Kim Harrison booksigning
Posted in Books, Publishing on June 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Last night, I attended my local Joseph-Beth bookstore’s Supernatural Summer Tour, featuring Melissa Marr, Kelley Armstrong and Kim Harrison:
These are the first YA novels for Kim Harrison and Kelley Armstrong, which is perhaps why I wasn’t familiar with them. ::squints suspiciously at the kids in the back of the blog whispering “or maybe it’s because [...]
Rejection can be an active good
Posted in Agents, Rejection on June 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Many writers realize that it’s sometimes a passive good, like when an agent turns you down and then you learn something about that person that makes you go “WHEW!” Also maybe “Ew!”
And I think most writers learn early that rejection can inspire you to get better and better.
But I’ve lately learned that rejection can teach [...]
