Though many know her for her dramatic suicide, Virginia Woolf was a champion of literary modernism who adapted the close psychological approach favored by Russian novelists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, pioneering stream-of-consciousness narration that she married with a superb sense of style, restraint, and inimitable observational chops. As you might expect,
In the quaint but recent past, dominated as it was by traditional publishing and traditional employment, most writers didn’t have to worry too much about legal ins and outs. Yes, there were writers whose work was banned for being too controversial, and there were even writers who got locked up or sent into exile for
Imagination is a vital tool for writers looking to produce an interesting and convincing book, but it’ll only take you so far. In addition to straight-up nonfiction, there are multiple genres of fiction that need more from their author than just a vivid imagination: historical fiction, for example, or true crime, science fiction, contemporary, etc.
There are many glamorous, romantic problems associated with being a writer. Less glamorous are the problems that assail those of us who write professionally: making enough money to put food on the table, negotiating writing contracts and, for the novelists among us, negotiating good book deals. These are dull, real-world problems with which writers often
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