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Thursday, May 10, 2012

Bathroom Monologue: Everyone's Advice on Writing Ever (Graph)


This is a joke I make a lot, but the tipping point was reading Jane Friedman’s advice: “You have to go through rounds of revisions and will likely have to change things you don’t want to change. But you must approach the process like a professional, not a creative artist.”

So here’s a facile graph of industry advice I’ve received over the years.


7 comments:

  1. That is a great visual. Maybe I'm kind of old and just settling for less as a writer, but it seems to me that little pieces of good ideas, like this one, flow out into the world in ways that could be more influential than you will ever know.

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  2. Love it. Oh, those poor failed authors...just a little more persistence and whole lotta luck.

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  3. I'd like a pie chart. Actually, I'd just like some pie.

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  4. Good stuff. There are so many advisory platitudes, aren't there?

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  5. It's kind of a reverse bell curve. Maybe call it a "ding-a-ling" curve, named after those in the middle.

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