Marketing: A Wolf In Writer’s Clothing?

On September 25, 2011, in Opinion, The Market, by rsguthrie

I am writing my first blog entry from my iPad. Why? Well, though I really hate typing on this thing (takes me back to the “hunt and peck” days with my first IBM Selectric—if you don’t know what that is, I’m not telling), it’s all I can muster. Suffice to say I am in bed, […]

 

A Needle in a Stack of Needles

On September 6, 2011, in The Market, Writing Tips, by rsguthrie

I can’t be the only writer who feels this way. I believe in my work. I am my own worst critic, so it’s not like I lay around eating sugar sandwiches knowing the gravy train can only be a few minutes from the station. Okay, the part about sugar sandwiches, maybe—but I only eat them […]

 

Entertaining Me To Death

On September 3, 2011, in The Market, Writing Tips, by rsguthrie

I recently blogged on passive voice and using too many clichés. A responder on Twitter wrote that, while what I said was true, it is entertainment and exposure that make bestsellers in the fiction genre. This response, while not all that uncommon, really got me to thinking. I believe there are few misconceptions in what […]