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Resolutions (Part 2)
We continue with our discussion of New Year’s Resolutions: What are your writing related goals for 2011? Continue reading
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Holiday Roundtable Part 4
To wrap up our holiday roundtable, we put on our speculative hats and asked, “What silly gift would you like to receive, if only such a thing existed?” Continue reading
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Holiday Roundtable Part 3
We continue with our discussion of holiday gift-giving, by your friends at The Spectacle, asking, “What books are you giving as gifts this year, and in what format?” Continue reading
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Holiday Roundtable Part 2
We continue with our discussion of holiday gift-giving, by your friends at The Spectacle, with the question, “Who would be the perfect recipient for a book or series of yours?” Continue reading
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Holiday Roundtable
Spectacle blog members answer questions about their own holiday wish lists. Continue reading
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NaNo Noise and Notes, Part 5
It’s been suggested that instead of celebrating writers as NaNo does, we should spend the month celebrating readers instead. After all, without readers, those novels remain silent. What do you think? Parker: Writers need just as much encouragement as readers do. … Continue reading
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NaNo Noise and Notes, Part 4
Today’s NaNo question: Instead of celebrating writing by the pound, even if its crap, should NaNo or some other organization switch the focus to revising, which many writers feel is the more important and neglected skill? Kari: Maybe NaNo could be … Continue reading
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NaNo Noise and Notes, Part 3
NaNoWriMo — who needs it? Each year, thousands of participants scribble out most or all of a novel. But do you think most of that work would eventually get done regardless? Laura Miller recently wrote in Salon: ”I’m confident those novels would … Continue reading
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NaNo Noise and Notes, Part 2
Is NaNoWriMo evil, as suggested recently by Laura Miller in Salon? (Well, she didn’t use the word evil, exactly, but close.) We asked The Spectacle writers for their thoughts: Does NaNo encourage the wrong folks to write (crap)? Kari: There are … Continue reading
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NaNo Noise and Notes
The excitement that goes along with National Novel Writing Month is often, in recent years, accompanied by voices of skepticism or downright distaste, like this one by Laura Miller in Salon. There are also, of course, many books and classes … Continue reading
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