Okej, ovo je vise na ekstravagantnoj nego uobicajenoj strani stvari, ali evo jednog taze oglasa za zanrovsku radionicu:
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Arc Manor (http://www.arcmanor.com/)/Phoenix Pick (http://www.phoenixpick.com/) is sponsoring a writer's workshop that features some outstanding talent. Participants include Toni Weisskopf (Head of Baen Publishing), Eleanor Wood (Spectrum Literary Agency, representing Bujold, Heinlein estate, etc.), Mike Resnick (GOH this year's Worldcon), Kevin J. Anderson, Nancy Kress, Jack Skillingstead, Rebecca Moesta and Paul Cook.
As if that weren't enticement enough, the 3-day workshop takes place on board a luxury cruise liner visiting the Bahamas! It takes place between December 3 and December 7, 2012. Port of embarkation/disembarkation is Miami, Florida.
(Inace, najmanje 5 autora debi-romana iz 2011 koje sam citala navode zahvalnicu nekoj od zanrovskih radionica i voditeljima istih. Mislim da je tu najbolje prosla Valente, pamtim da se poimence navodi u bar 2 zahvalnice )
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There's a lot of writing advice floating around out there—some people like to help others, some people like to be authorities. And dispensing advice is a whole lot easier than, say, building someone a new computer. But sometimes you see advice being given (and gratefully received) that makes you shudder and tiptoe away.
There was one bit of advice that was being circulated for new writers some ten, fifteen years ago: If you want to call yourself professional, then you will send out a story a week.
Well, of course, as soon as the P-word is trotted out, people get anxious. Heaven forfend we are not thought professional. Whatever that means.
Whether it was or not, I thought that was awful advice. Though maybe everybody else could write a successful story a week, and I was the only dweeb who takes at least a year to come up with a short story idea. Then there's the the sending out right away. It might feel good to stuff that still-smoking story into the envelope and send it five minutes after you wrote "The End." But is that really a good idea?
Unless you're one of those rare writers who turns out fantastic prose first draft, you don't see all the flaws of that story, you mistake the emotion of composition for the effect of reading it cold. Most of us have to let the story cool off for a while before tackling it again, getting beta readers, polishing yet again...and for all intents and purposes, that is the first draft.
The second problem is related, that one must resend a rejected story out a kazillion times without rewriting it. Let an editor tell you to rewrite it after you've been paid. Not every writer needs or wants beta readers. But what if time goes by and you look at the story again and see how to fix it?
Write and sell short stories before you try novels. This was probably good advice (except for born novelists) thirty years ago, but I don't think it is anymore.
Don't bother with grammar—that's what copyeditors are for. Grate advisse. Make's it so much more eezy two rede.
Stick to writing what you know. So I know how to fly? Or what life is like on another planet? Can we all say imagination? Seriously, I can see some utility in cautioning writers about splashing into an area of which they are ignorant, but there is a such thing as research.
Kill your darlings. In other words, if you admire a bit of writing, that means you need to take it out. Yeah, sometimes what we admire most, um, doesn't work for others, but I really think that the time for cutting is after beta readers one trusts point out the purple patches or the overused expressions or the interlarding of scaffolding that was invisible. If those problems suddenly become visible, and the bit no longer pleases us, time for the red pen. But deleting something you're proud of because you're proud of it, and for no other reason? Sounds to me like a great recipe for writer's block.
Finally, I think the best summation of bad advice is any version of You have to do it my way or you are doing it wrong.
Posted on February 19th, 2012 by Sherwood Smith (http://blog.bookviewcafe.com/2012/02/19/writers-on-writing-bad-advice/#more-21558)
On June 10th 2012, Starship Sofa is hosting an Online Narrators Workshop (http://narrator.eventbrite.co.uk/). Guest Speakers include:
- Kate Baker
- Peter Seaton-Clark
- Mike Boris
- Nathan Lowell
See Starship Sofa's Online Narrators Workshop (http://narrator.eventbrite.co.uk/) post for more details.