Goodbye cruel world, I’m moving to the internet | Caitlin Moran - Times Online
Caitlin Moran - "When you call someone, essentially you suddenly materialise in their life, screaming, “ME ME! ME ME! IT’S ME! TALK TO ME!” The telephone was first invented at a time when you could readily purchase cocaine in any chemist. I...

Learn to Write a Website Review
Every reviewer has different reasons to write a website review. Some write it to get paid, while other write to get more traffic; yet another group of writers write it to get writing assignments. Bloggers also get paid for writing website reviews (pa

Guide to Literary Agents - Successful Queries
Actual query letters that resulted in agenting and book deals. (via Erika Dreifus)

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Town Hall Talk: Neil Gaiman - New Zealand International Arts Festival
Listed in the Dictionary of Literary Biography as one of the top ten living post-modern writers, Neil Gaiman is a prolific creator of prose, poetry, film, journalism, comics, song lyrics and drama. Beloved among readers around the world, his many books...

Tao Lin, Lit Boy - The All New Issue -- New York Magazine
Lin, in other words, seems to have planted his aesthetic flag on the treacherous Miranda July fault line between art and cutesiness. (July has prominently blurbed his books.) He writes in a showy outsider style—deadpan realism garnished casually with...

Is Software Set to Replace Sports Journalists?
Computers can now write a baseball news article. America's pastime just went 21st century.Sports writers are sharpening their pencils and maliciously eying their laptops as researchers in the Intelligent Informations Lab at Northwestern University...

Finding self in another culture - Sacramento Living - Sacramento Food and Wine, Home, Health | Sacramento Bee
"When an Indian American writer portrays India, a reader will already have seen five other portrayals in other books and inject what they've seen before," she explained. "That leads readers to overlook other aspects of an immigrant...

Headline Writing Drives Traffic
by Geoff LivingstonIt doesn’t matter what the property is (image by junkerjane). From Twitter and email to document and blog post titles, your ability to write great headlines (or 140 character writing) matters more than ever. Great headlines drive...