By reblogging this I do solemnly swear that I will try to write a novel of at least 50,000 words in 30 days this summer as part of Camp NaNoWriMo.
Won’t you join me?
Aaron Sorkin (via thatwasnotveryravenofyou)
It is so comforting to know that even Aaron Sorkin feels this way, because it’s how I feel every. single. time.
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Because there are only a few hours left to enter this contest, we’ve changed the rules! We’ll give out 3 prize packs no matter how many people enter!
Your chances of winning are insanely high so go enter…
Contest: Win 5 bound print copies of your book or script just for signing up for Camp NaNoWriMo
I’m hosting a contest at the link above for anyone who signs up for Camp NaNoWriMo. You don’t even have to win, you just need to go to the Camp NaNoWriMo site and login with either your NaNoWriMo or Script Frenzy login info and then post your camper profile on the post linked above. Anyone, whether they’ve participated in any OLL event in the past or not, is eligible.
How I feel whenever I sit down to write…
I read a sad case today of a young writer who had had her story rewritten into illiteracy by a so-called publisher, who then abused her in email when she wrote to complain. She wsn’t getting paid for her story — instead she was actually buying copies of the anthology to show people that she had sold a story. And I thought, it is time to remind the world, and to enlighten young writers, about…
Money flows towards the writer.
That’s all. All writers should remember it.
When a commercial publisher contracts a book, it will pay an advance against royalties to the writer. Money flows towards the writer.
Literary agents make their living by charging a commission of between 10 and 20% on the sales that they make on behalf of their clients, the writers. When advances and royalties are paid by a publisher the agent’s percentage is filtered off in the direction of the writer’s agent but the bulk of the money still flows towards the writer.
If a publisher ever asks for any sort of financial contribution from a writer, they’re trying to divert money away from the writer, in direct contravention of Yog’s Law.
If an agent ever asks for up-front fees, regardless of what they call them (reading fees, administration costs, processing fees, or retainers), then they are trying to divert money away from the writer, in direct contravention of Yog’s Law.
It’s a brilliantly simple rule. We should thank James D Macdonald for it in the best way there is. Buy his booksMoney flows toward the writer.
No, that doesn’t mean that the author should get paper and ink for free, or that he won’t pay for postage. It does mean that when someone comes along and says, “Sure, kid, you can be a Published Author! It’ll only cost you $300!” the writer will know that something’s wrong. A fee is a fee is a fee, whether they call it a reading fee, a marketing fee, a promotion fee, or a cheese-and-crackers fee.
Is this perfect? No. Scammers have come up with some elaborate ways to avoid activating it. But it’s still a good and useful tool, and will save a lot of grief. Any time an agent or publisher asks for money, the answer should be “No!”
(Source: howpublishingreallyworks.blogspot.com)
Actually I suspect you can skip the first 8 if you just do the last one.
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NaNoWriMo, I am prepared to sacrifice another month of my life at your altar in June. Please spare me from my addiction to you after this!
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So… who wants to go camping? ;-)
Camp NaNoWriMo is coming this June and August.
(Pictures via this awesome Camp NaNoWriMo Care Package)
Contest: Win 5 bound print copies of your book or script just for signing up for Camp NaNoWriMo
I’m hosting a contest at the link above for anyone who signs up for Camp NaNoWriMo. You don’t even have to win, you just need to go to the Camp NaNoWriMo site and login with either your NaNoWriMo or Script Frenzy login info and then post your camper profile on the post linked above. Anyone, whether they’ve participated in any OLL event in the past or not, is eligible.
Here’s the best part: The more people who enter, the more prizes I’ll be giving out so help me spread the word about this contest if you can.
1 Write.
2 Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down.
3 Finish what you’re writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.
4 Put it aside. Read it pretending you’ve never read it before. Show it to friends whose opinion you respect and who like the kind of thing that this is.
5 Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.
6 Fix it. Remember that, sooner or later, before it ever reaches perfection, you will have to let it go and move on and start to write the next thing. Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.
7 Laugh at your own jokes.
8 The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it’s definitely true for writing.) So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I’m not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.
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Read the whole article. It’s filled with great advice from wonderful writers…
Print this out or copy it down and use it to keep track of all your characters! Probably won’t be handy until closer to November, so save it to your computers!!
