I washed my hair. Brushed it too!
I hear ya. I took a side gig for a whole year so I could save up enough money to cover a Clarion workshop. Didn’t get in so now it’s sitting in a 12 month bond in the hopes of next year 😂
The things we do…..
That what would be my deciding factor- getting personalized mentoring and having access to a critique group that I could (hopefully) rely on even after the workshop ends. Sounds like this one checks both boxes?
Does the workshop include a critique group? Some personalized mentoring from the instructor? THAT would be worth the money, as you can't get that from a book on craft. 2/2
I don't have an MFA and I'm unpublished, so take this with a grain of salt, but, the few workshops and seminars I've paid for were just re-hashing of information easily available in college and graduate-level textbooks like Writing Fiction (Janet Burroway) and Deepening Fiction (Stone & Nyren). 1/2
I’ve gotten plenty of form rejections but I always wondered how I’d feel when I got my first personalized rejection. Would I find it encouraging, or would it feel like salt in an open wound?
Well tonight I got my first. And it feels… good! Like I’m sooo close I can taste it.
:”(
I saw at least five or six before my pomodoro timer reminded me to get back to work. It was a nice chuckle this morning.
It updates with every refresh! 😂
Told myself I wasn't logging into my socials because I can't trust anything I read today (April 1).
So I log into my Submission Grinder...
You guys. LOL
@diabolicalplots.com
When you’ve wasted HOURS doomscrolling social media and despairing life only to accidentally stumble upon a link/video/article you weren’t even looking for but it’s exactly what you needed to see in this moment
How is it I have six THOUSAND unread emails?
How is it sci-fi, with all its prescient power, never warned us of this coming pestilence??
Some people aren't happy until they find something to be unhappy about.
When did people start using boldface for bald-faced??
Boldface describes a font style. Bald-faced describes a lie.
When we write, we aren’t just creating worlds and characters on the page, we’re reshaping ourselves, too. It’s impossible to live in another person’s skin and see the world through their eyes without being fundamentally affected.
Writing changes you.
#WritingCommunity
Creatives toil for years before they get a shot at being published, recorded, or shown in a gallery. Most of them struggle to make ends meet just like everyone else.
Yet you've convinced yourself that flooding the market with a free version of their labor is no big deal.
Wow.
You're taking author royalties from potential sales. You're erasing metrics publishers use to decide which books to promote/reprint. You're undercutting revenue from library licensing bc they don't know a book is popular. You're removing the author's right to control how their labor is distributed.
Why do you feel entitled to other people’s labor?
Who told you that was okay?
“I was never gonna buy it so I might as well steal it” is a helluva argument.
If a reader wants to read a book, they generally buy it, or they go to a library, which has bought multiple copies and licenses for it. The author benefits either way.
If a pirated version is made available, a subset of those buyers will now get it for free. The author doesn’t see a dime.
No, it doesn’t. Because now people can download a pirated copy for free when they otherwise would’ve had to pay for it.
I can’t think of one author who has come out against their books being loaned out by libraries. Most of us would kill to see our books shelved in a public library.
No, it wasn’t, otherwise it wouldn’t be called “pirated.”
Every book in a library or a used bookstore was bought and the author paid.
You cannot say the same for every pirated copy of a book.
If you want a book and can’t afford it, buying used is a great option. Every used book was bought at some point, and so the author got paid. Similarly, every book in the library was paid for.
But pirated copies bypass that process.
Well I certainly agree that most people aren’t sitting around typing up books. Do you know why? Because that takes a ton of time and effort, which is exactly why authors deserve to be paid for their work.
Many libraries also offer online access to newspapers and magazines, so if you see an article online that’s paywalled, there’s a good chance you can gain access through your library.
What guarantee do you have that the pirated version you downloaded was based on an actual purchase and not a copy of a copy of a copy?
If your library offers a book (ebook, audiobook, hardback or paperback) you know they paid for it.
When my dog woke me up this morning at 5am, I was like, HAHA JOKE'S ON YOU! It's actually 6am. 😏
