This week — Monday through Friday — I’m talking about criticism. Monday: The Benefits of Criticism Tuesday: 5 Ways to Handle Criticism Wednesday: 5 Ways to Give Good Critiques Yesterday: Criticism — It’s Not an Editor’s Job Today: The Best Critique I Ever Received I had somebody in development at a major film studio interested […]
Archives for 2009
Criticism — It’s Not an Editor’s Job
This week — Monday through Friday — I’m talking about criticism. Monday: The Benefits of Criticism Tuesday: 5 Ways to Handle Criticism Yesterday: 5 Ways to Give Good Critiques Today: Criticism — It’s Not an Editor’s Job Friday: The Best Critique I Ever Received A few of the things I’ve heard people say before submitting […]
5 Ways to Give Good Critiques
This week — Monday through Friday — I’m talking about criticism. Monday: The Benefits of Criticism Tuesday: 5 Ways to Handle Criticism Today: 5 Ways to Give Good Critiques Thursday: Criticism — It’s Not an Editor’s Job Friday: The Best Critique I Ever Received 1. Take the Time. If you agree to read somebody’s work […]
5 Ways to Handle Criticism
This week — Monday through Friday — I’m talking about criticism. Yesterday: The Benefits of Criticism. Today: 5 Ways to Handle Criticism Wednesday: 5 Ways to Give Good Critiques Thursday: Criticism — It’s Not an Editor’s Job Friday: The Best Critique I Ever Received Normal people don’t like being told that something they put their […]
The Benefits of Criticism
This week — Monday through Friday — I’m talking about criticism. Today: The Benefits of Criticism. Tuesday: 5 Ways to Handle Criticism Wednesday: 5 Ways to Give Good Critiques Thursday: Criticism — It’s Not an Editor’s Job Friday: The Best Critique I Ever Received The Benefits of Criticism Learning to deal with criticism is one […]
Weekly Roundup (10/04/09 – 10/10/09)
The week’s favorite links. Blog Finds I know people who loathe Twitter. They say it’s annoying; they say they just don’t get it. I think many of these people view it as a quicker replacement for Facebook and shy away. For me, Facebook is where I keep in touch with people I actually know. Twitter […]
The Juggling Writer – One Month In…
I’m one month in to The Juggling Writer. My goal was to have 12-15 posts (posting roughly 3 times a week). I wrote 22 posts (including this one), totaling 8,976 words (408-word average per post). Next week I plan to post a daily series about criticism. I hope you’ll enjoy it and reply. Thanks for […]
Cut It Out: Eliminate These 5 Things for More Writing Time
It’s been over a year since the day my wife and I were watching TV and it went out. It made a little clicking noise, and then it went black. Kaput! The TV had died. There was a moment of panic: “What will we do?! Civilization will crumble without TV; this is clearly the beginning […]
5 Ways to Deal with Writer’s Block
You sit down to write and the words don’t flow. You get frustrated and maybe check e-mail. You pace; you might even do some cleaning or watch TV. You tell yourself that you’ll get back to writing after your writer’s block goes away. Hours, days, months, even years later, it’s still there. Writer’s block is […]
The Business of English
The American Scholar has a great article about the decline of English studies in colleges in its autumn issue. The article shows that while there’s been a decline in people studying English [and other liberal arts classes], there has been a significant rise in students studying business. – English: from 7.6 percent of the majors […]
Sarah Palin’s Ghost
Sarah Palin has a memoir coming out in November. I’ve seen people online knocking her for working with a ghostwriter. I don’t intend to ever get overtly political on The Juggling Writer unless it somehow relates directly to writing. But I’ll admit that I’m not even remotely a fan of Sarah Palin. Even if you […]
Social Networking and the Power of Free
Earlier this week, Jason Pinter announced that he was giving his book, THE MARK, away for free as an e-book. I’ve been reading more books on my iTouch, using the Kindle app. I’d planned to read THE MARK, so I downloaded the e-book and have it for when I’m ready to read it. I stumbled […]
Dropping Things
There was a period of time, during an illness with a close relative and during an illness of my own, that I didn’t write or juggle as much as I once did. I felt bad that I wasn’t productive. Even though nobody would fault me for taking care of a sick sibling for two years […]