Oh yes, the Writer’s Digest “Writing to sell” brochure from 1951 goes on. (Parts one and two, in case you missed them.) “Do you enjoy words? Do you enjoy day dreaming about other people, imagining them in various unusual situations?” Esther Lamb will smile knowingly at you until you tell. If yes, one day you, [...]
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More from the 1951 Writer’s Digest brochure! (If you missed the first installment, it is Writing to sell, part one.) “…acknowledged to be the best job on earth.” “you don’t have to be unusually bright, or quick.” Who, indeed? (Are there still 2,500 markets that pay from one-cent to one dollar a word?) My favorite [...]
So, pretty much every time I go to the Usual Undisclosed Location I find artifacts. It turns out that in 1951, my dad took the Writer’s Digest short story course. He saved the brochure. I have scanned it in its entirety for the edification of the Internet, and will be posting it here over the [...]
…is this: A glow-in-the-dark release cord you can pull to open the trunk from the inside. I am sure this was not the actual reason for its development, but it’s hard to look at the graphic without thinking of all the movies wherein someone is trapped in that part of a vehicle.
I have been engaged, for the past week or so, in parallel tasks, one largely conceptual, the other a mix of conceptual and physical. The conceptual-centric task: revising my graphic novel script. Deciding what threads need to be connected, what dialog tightened, what scenes simply don’t fit and need to be tossed. And I need [...]
…that if you had considered purchasing The Rules for Hearts, but were daunted by its nature as a physical object, you are totally in luck, because it is now available as an e-book! You can definitely download it for both the Kindle and the Nook; perhaps for other devices as well. Readers, if you’ve bought [...]
