The Red Fox
December 26, 2023
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Sometimes, living in a forest as I do, I get a glimpse of nature in all its living beauty, its calming beauty.
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The Pleasure of Re-Reading
December 19, 2023
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I’m sure I’m preaching to the choir here when I speak of the pleasures of reading. But perhaps not enough is said about the pleasure of re-reading.
How Publishing Used to Feel
December 12, 2023
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Among Friends is “a history of an industry transformed by consolidation and shifting tastes.” I have been part of that industry since 1968, when my first book, Things That Sometimes Happen, was accepted for publication.
Inarticulate
December 5, 2023
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If people cannot be taught or experience how to express their feelings, frustrations, and conflicts with words, they will find ways—destructive ways—to express their emotions.
Of Passing Interest
November 28, 2023
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Here’s a mordant question. What happens to a writer’s work when she/he passes on?
What should the page of a manuscript look like?
November 21, 2023
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You may not know it but there is such a thing as the “Golden Ratio,” which suggests the best way to create a written page layout.
Waiting
November 14, 2023
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There are many skills that professional writers have to master. But one of the skills a writer must master is one that I don’t think is often mentioned: waiting.
Revising 80 or more times
November 7, 2023
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Molly wrote to ask, “You said somewhere that you revise your books eighty or more times. Is that true? Why do you do that? Do I have to do that?”
Give Me Some Space
October 31, 2023
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If you think as I do, that the physical book can be a form of art, then typography … is vital to the art of bookmaking.
Inviting People to Come In
October 24, 2023
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Too often we talk about writing as if it is self-expression, dealing with our own demons or delights. No doubt that is part of it.