Author Angie Sage doesn’t really believe in writer’s block except as a roundabout way of admitting you’ve run out of ideas. Here are her top tips on how to get started again! ‘Writer’s block’ is a weird phrase. It implies that writing is an arcane art that channels a mysterious force—a force which may, like a drain, become blocked by malevolent forces beyond the writer’s control.You can probably guess that I don’t believe in writer’s block. But what I know for sure is that if you write you will at some time – shh, don’t tell anyone – run out of ideas. This is kind of embarrassing for a writer and the temptation to give up and sit by the fire with a bar of chocolate and a nice book that someone else has gone to the trouble of writing is sometimes too much. If you call this state ‘writer’s block’ the chances are that your family will tiptoe around you very respectfully and possibly even ask if you fancy a chocolate éclair as well. Related: Darke by Angie Sage – review Related: How to win a creative writing competition - top tips Related: How do I get involved in the Guardian children's books site? Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2015-11-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Some of today's most prominent writers are sharing their thoughts on the Bible and how it has impacted their lives in a new anthology. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Accent Press has signed numerous titles by "acclaimed" crime writer Bernard Knight CBE, author of the Crowner John Mysteries. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Guillermo del Toro has gone back into the world of kaiju and jaegers with "Pacific Rim: Tales from the Drift," an official new series from the director and "Pacific Rim" screenwriter Travis Beacham that launched last week in comic book stores.With a story by Beacham, writer Joshua Fialkov ("The... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sunjeev Sahota and Sara Taylor are among the four authors who have made the shortlist for The Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Past winners of the The Sunday Times/Peters Fraser & Dunlop Young Writers of the Year Award share their writing tips and their favourite books written by writers aged 35 and under. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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James Attlee, Writer on the Train for GWR, on the journey from blog to app to print. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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English PEN has awarded eight grants to books by international women writers, marking an “exciting first” for women authors to have shared in the prestigious grants equally with men. In what has been described as a "bumper English PEN grants season", a total of 16 grants were awarded this... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-11-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Writer's Edit, a Sydney-based literary magazine, has branched into books and is winning industry accolades and launching new careers. The post Australian Lit Mag “Writer’s Edit” Launches Books, Builds Careers appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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German publisher Axel Springer and Adblock Plus have entered a new round in their fight over ad blocking. Adblock Plus accused the publisher of quashing discussion about how to get around Axel Springer's newly erected wall that keeps ad-block users from accessing the site of its tabloid,... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2015-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The American Writers Museum, which has been in the planning stages for five years, has leased a space in Chicago and announced that it will open in early 2017. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Everyone’s to blame for the state of digital advertising, but ad blocking is a problem that’s landed right in publishers’ laps. The post Playing Hot Potatoes With Ad Blocking appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2015-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For the longest time, marketers believed that bigger was better. Bigger ad formats, bigger ad sizes and bigger animations drove ever-larger and more intrusive ad design. That is, until ad blockers arrived on the scene. Now consumers are protesting and showing their dissatisfaction by using... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2015-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With an iOS update expanding ad-blocking's reach, experts say smaller publishers and bloggers have fewer means of survival.As the debate over online ad blocking heats up with the arrival of iOS 9, experts say the biggest casualties of the online ad war may be small publishers and bloggers with... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2015-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers are in danger of becoming dumb content in the smart pipes of platforms like Facebook and Twitter. The quest for smoother user experience seems to pose actually visiting a publisher’s site as friction. With content consumption bei ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Interactive Advertising Bureau today said the digital publishing industry has cared too much about revenues and too little about user experience and needs therefore to accept blame for the rising popularity of ad blockers. So it's launching an effort called L.E.A.N. Ads, with the acronym... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2015-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Anthology of uncollected writings should secure a reappraisal of notorious occultist, says publisherAleister Crowley, the occultist once dubbed the “wickedest man in the world”, is due for a reassessment as a short-story writer, according to a new anthology of his uncollected writing which... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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"There are too many adjectives in publishing already," writes Carla Douglas. An editor based in Kingston, Ontario, Douglas is a frequent participant in our #FutureChat Twitter discussions and an engaging observer of the creative scene in publishing. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Alarmed by the rise of ad blocking software use, publishers are starting to recognize their contribution to the problem. At Digiday's Europe Publishing Summit in Barcelona this week, leading European publishers talked about the need to restore the reader experience. As News U.K.'s Alessandro de... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2015-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Search company unveils Accelerated Mobile Pages in bid to work with publishers, ad companies and rival platforms Google is attempting to counter the threat from ad-blocking and rivals Facebook and Apple by radically improving the loading speed of web pages on smartphones and tablets.Accelerated... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It’s a growing problem for ad-supported publishers: How do you get people to stop using ad blocking software? Short of forcing them to see ads they don’t want to, many publishers including The Washington Post and Atlantic are trying to appeal to them with polite entreaties. But some say the soft... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2015-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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