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Will Write for Food
A guy I knew in grad school used to wear a T-shirt with those four words on the front. Every time he wore it, the rest of us gave knowing chuckles. The statement aptly captured two assumptions of student life: meager grocery budget; desperation for payment, any payment, for one’s words. I’ve been thinking a lot about that shirt. The spirit behind it seems both sincere—a willingness to do what it takes—and ironic. Food? You kidding me? What about free? You kidding me? The debate sprouts up on Facebook, professional writers’ list servs, and heated email chains: when is it … Continue reading
Posted in agents, teaching, writing
Tagged blog posts, blogging, bloodbath, Conde Nast, Facebook, Facebook followers, grad school, grad students, Huffington Post, HuffPo, Lindsey Crittenden, magazine writing, social media, The Water Will Hold You, Twitter followers, Writers@Work, writing for free, writing for pay, writing income, writing profession
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A Post On Any Other Day…
*There will be no post next Friday, April 20. The next post will appear 4/27/12. (Coincidence. Really.) Today, for the first time since starting this blog almost a year ago, I’m posting on Saturday. Not just that, but Saturday afternoon. What’s happened? Has all my discipline gone out the window? Let’s back up. I started this blog almost a year ago, during Meghan Ward’s class on social media, offered through the S.F. Writers’ Grotto. I wrote my first blog for a Friday, and ever since, I’ve kept to that schedule, channeling Meghan’s advice about a regular schedule yielding continuity of … Continue reading
Posted in craft, writing
Tagged blogging, blogs, discipline, Grotto Annex, Lindsey Crittenden, Meghan Ward, S.F. Writers' Grotto, Sanchez Street, social media, TIburon, writing, writing habits, writing routine, writing schedule
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Beside the Point?
A couple weeks ago (OK, three, which is ancient history in social media time), an essay appeared in the New York Times Book Review called “Why Authors Tweet.” In it, Anne Trubek seems to poke fun at Jeffrey Eugenides as well as other social-media-shy writers for opting out of Twitter, Facebook, and the like. “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain,” the great and powerful Oz says, but that’s of course exactly where we want to look. Toto pulls back the curtain, and the mysterious and powerful is rendered quotidian, ordinary—a little traveling showman with his smoke-and-mirrors machine. … Continue reading
Posted in community, writing
Tagged Anne Trubek, Facebook, Gary Shteyngart, Jeffrey Eugenides, Lindsey Crittenden, Louisa May Alcott, Michael Douglas, New York Times Book Review, Salman Rushdie, social media, Twitter, Why Authors Tweet, Winona Ryder, Wonder Boys, writer stereotypes, writers' garret, writers' social media platforms
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How do you keep writing when you don’t have time?
When I started this blog, last spring, while taking Meghan Ward’s Social Media Madness for Writers class at the Grotto – which I highly recommend to any Bay Area writer mystified by the demands and protocol of social media – I vowed to keep to it regularly. Habit, discipline, building a readership – all that good stuff relies on consistency. OK to take a break for a vacation or such, Meghan advised, just let your readers know. I sat down this morning to let my readers know that this morning, I won’t be posting because I need to work on … Continue reading
Posted in writing, writing groups
Tagged blogging, Lindsey Crittenden, Meghan Ward, novel, revision, Rincon, SF Writers' Grotto, social media, social media madness, the Grotto, writing, writing schedule
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