New York — At the end of a week filled with news of layoffs at some of America’s biggest publishing houses, editors and literary agents are reporting a dramatic increase in the volume of unsolicited manuscripts and query submissions —...
Topics: Breaking News, nanowrimo

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The phenomenal success of National Novel Writing Month (the annual word-accumulation festival where participants dilute the very concept of “writer” down to its most simplistic sense) has spawned a number of similar Internet-based community...
Topics: nanowrimo, top ten list

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Ah, National NOvel Writing Month, that magical time of the year where over a hundred thousand confused misanthropes sequester themselves from their daily miseries to join a massively multiplayer online game where every character is a writer, and when you.
Topics: Demotivator

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A pessimist would say that the 21st Century began on September 11, 2001. I remember looking at my 12-day-old second child that day and thinking that the world had changed, irrevocably, and that she would never know what it was like to live without the...
Topics: Uncategorized

{"title":"A Brief Digression into Politics","post_url":"http:\/\/101reasonstostopwriting.com\/2008\/11\/06\/a-brief-digression-into-politics\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/101reasonstostopwriting.com\/feed\/","author":"seanlindsay","date":"2008-11-05 07:03:18","summary":"A pessimist would say that the 21st Century began on September 11, 2001. I remember looking at my 12-day-old second child that day and thinking that the world had changed, irrevocably, and that she would never know what it was like to live without the..."}

BEGINNINGThe last chance the reader has to put your book down, before they start to hate you for wasting their time and money.click for larger version (widescreen)Photo by Stephanie, of MorgueFile.
Topics: Demotivator

{"title":"Beginning : Your July Demotivator (Belated)","post_url":"http:\/\/101reasonstostopwriting.com\/2008\/09\/27\/beginning-your-july-demotivator-belated\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/101reasonstostopwriting.com\/feed\/","author":"seanlindsay","date":"2008-09-27 05:59:24","summary":"BEGINNINGThe last chance the reader has to put your book down, before they start to hate you for wasting their time and money.click for larger version (widescreen)Photo by Stephanie, of MorgueFile."}