I well remember attending my first SF Writing For Change conference at the Unitarian Universalist Center in San Francisco. The lobby was buzzing with excitement and warm sunlight beamed through stained glass windows in the great room as it filled with writers and publishing folk. It seemed almost too good to be true; I was
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Why Now is the Best Time to Be a Writer
There was a New Yorker cartoon showing an editor sitting across a desk from a writer who looks like Charles Dickens and saying: “Make up your mind, Mr. Dickens. Was it the best of times or the worst of times? It could scarcely have been both.” It’s certainly a challenging time to be a writer, but for many reasons, it’s best time ever.
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Writers are essential to making the American dream a reality.
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You can adapt the keys to Amazon’s success
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An assortment of powerful individuals and organizations is harming people and the planet. We need a movement, led in part by writers, to stop it.
Read MoreWhat Business Are You In? (It’s not writing or publishing.)
If you think you’re just in the writing or the publishing business, prepare for poverty and obscurity. If you want to be a successful writer in the Digital Age, you have to be in six businesses: 1. The content business. You have to create content of different kinds and lengths for different media. More than
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