Posts Tagged "books on writing"

If there’s one thing that all writers have in common, it’s rejection. At some point or another (and more than likely at a lot of points) every writer gets a letter an email (or perhaps hears no response at all) to let them know that their submitted work, their precious darling child, will not be published, at least not this time around. Thankfully, the other thing that all writers have in common is persistence and a bit of masochism. We continue to try, try and try again. Jon Friedman has made something of a career out of rejection organizing the Rejection Show and now editing the anthology Rejected which collects both rejected works as well as stories of rejection from a variety of creative types. Many of the writers represented are comedy writers and...

It’s Monday What Are You Reading? is a group blog hosted by J. Kaye’s Book Blog. You can link your blog by clicking here. A week spent traveling all over creation or thereabouts doesn’t necessarily lend itself to lots of reading. I did manage to finish up This is Me, Jack Vance by Jack Vance, the other two books I got through this week were audios I listened to while driving around, Feed by M. T. Anderson and Superfreakonomics by  Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. This is Me, Jack Vance I’ve always loved author memoirs. Jack Vance is one of those science fiction authors I discovered when I was younger after reading a short story in an anthology. When the internet was still young, I found a great website that sold all sorts of old...