Originally posted on WILDsound Writing Festival:
You may have heard from a beginning writer, “What if an agent steals my idea?” Or “What if a publisher prints my book and sells it without paying me?” Or “What if someone pirates my e-book?” You may yourself have wondered, why is it customary not to copyright one’s…
Month: March 2020
Of Bloated Prose and Books That Should Have Been Blogs — BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog
Originally posted on WILDsound Writing Festival:
By Cherone Duggan Books that should have been blogs. Blogs that should have been tweets. Tweets that should have been thoughts. Waffle-fed and fluff-padded, bloated prose waddles around every section of the written world. As does the well-worn writing advice to slim down our copy to skeletal leanness. “Omit…
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