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Editors, Writers, Publishers: Theory on Payment

Business of Books, GuidanceJames BuchananNovember 11, 2020payment, getting paid, business of writing, writer, writing, money, payComment

An Irbey Note

GuidanceJames BuchananMay 8, 2020Samantha Irby, writing advice, routines, daily ritualsComment

Sex/Sexual Psyche/Erotica

Characterization, GuidanceJames BuchananApril 22, 2020Sex, sexual, psyche, erotica, character development, writingComment

Dorothy Allison: Glory and Writing

Art, Guidance, Heart of Writing, Quotes, True ExperiencesJames BuchananNovember 24, 2019Dorothy Allison, writing advice, glory, Bastard out of CarolinaComment

Cecelia Ahern: Write a Book a Year

GuidanceJames BuchananNovember 11, 2019Cecelia Ahern, writing, productivity, adviceComment

Our Writing is Our Gift

Art, Guidance, Heart of WritingJames BuchananOctober 7, 2019van Gogh, Brenda Ueland, writing advice, If You Want to WriteComment

A Murderer of Talent ca 1938

Art, Guidance, Heart of WritingJames BuchananOctober 2, 2019Brenda Ueland, writing advice, a murderer of talent, passionComment

A True Editor: Susan Kamil

Art, Guidance, Heart of WritingJames BuchananSeptember 11, 2019Susan Kamil, editor, editing, writing process, advice for writersComment

Erin Lee Carr: Very Good Memoir Advice

Guidance, MemoirJames BuchananApril 7, 2019Erin Lee Carr, All That You Leave Behind, memoir, advice for writersComment

The Hyper-Important Top Ten List of Why One Book Fails and Another Succeeds

Business of Books, GuidanceJames BuchananFebruary 21, 2019The Orchard, Best Books, Why books succeed, writing adviceComment

Jules Renard on How to be a Great Writer

Good Writing and Writers, GuidanceJames BuchananFebruary 19, 2018Jules Renard, great writer, great writing, advice for writers Comment

Book Sales 2017

Platform, Guidance, Business of BooksJames BuchananNovember 27, 2017Best Books, 2017, Slate, fiction, nonfiction, marketing advice, book marketingComment

A Good Cafe & Creating Characters: An Exercise

Characterization, GuidanceJames BuchananJune 29, 2017characterization, exercise, fiction, nonfiction, writing is artComment

You Won't Fucking Believe This...

GuidanceJames BuchananMay 26, 2017Blink, Malcolm, Gladwell, writing advice, fictionComment

Very

Guidance, RantsJames BuchananJanuary 24, 2017Very, adverbs, writing adviceComment

Ugh, A Storytelling System

Art, Guidance, Heart of WritingJames BuchananJanuary 20, 2017writing is art, bad advice, storyteloling system, storytelling system, fiction, nonfiction, the heart of writing, to be a writer, rip offsComment

Photo Books and Character Details

Characterization, Description, GuidanceJames BuchananJanuary 9, 2017photos, character, characterization, Vivian Maier, writing, fiction, nonfictionComment

Does My Query Suck?

Finding a Publisher, Finding an Agent, GuidanceJames BuchananApril 27, 2016query letter, queries, literary agent, agents, publisher, rejectionComment

Great Opening Lines: Make a Big Promise

Guidance, Good Writing and Writers, Heart of WritingJames BuchananFebruary 4, 2016Cannery Row, John Steinbeck, great opening lines, novels, fiction, nonfictionComment

More Mary Karr

GuidanceJames BuchananDecember 28, 2015Mary Karr, memoir, narrative nonfiction, The Art of MemoirComment