On Writing & Publishing, & Everything In-between

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• Classic Atwood wit and wisdom.

  

  Sandra Gulland

  

  Margaret Atwood's rules for writers

  The Guardian - Guardian Staff

  We asked some of the most esteemed contemporary authors for any golden rules they bring to their writing practice. Here are Margaret Atwood's 1 Take a pencil to write with on aeroplanes. Pens leak. But if the pencil breaks, you can't sharpen it on the plane, because you can't take knives with you. …

• Just ordered. Murakami is always enlightening.

  

  Sandra Gulland

  

  An Unnatural Spring: On Haruki Murakami’s “Novelist as a Vocation”

  lareviewofbooks.org - Robert Allen Papinchak

  THE 11 AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS (six old, five new) collected in Haruki Murakami’s splendid second memoir of sorts, Novelist as a Vocation, are not …

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  Sandra Gulland

  

  Memoirs on Writing

  Medium - Michelle Richmond

  Lately, I’ve been drawn to personal narratives — particularly memoirs of the writing life. I keep coming back to books that are not about writing so …

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  Sandra Gulland

  

  23 lessons from The Beatles on the creative process

  wegrowmedia.com - Dan Blank

  This week I watched a 7+ hour documentary on The Beatles that was recently released, and kept finding little lessons for writers and artists on the …

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  Sandra Gulland

  

  How to write a synopsis for a novel

  nathanbransford.com - Nathan Bransford

  Of all the things you will write throughout the publishing process, a synopsis may be what you dread the most. It’s not fun to have to shoehorn an …

• No truer words ...

  

  Sandra Gulland

  

  You Can’t Do It All

  writerunboxed.com - Greer Macallister

  When you read the headline of this piece — you can’t do it all — did you bristle? Relax? Recognize your own struggle as a writer? For most of us, it …