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So You’ve Decided to Write: What I Learned From Editing Jim Harrison
The first chapter of Jim Harrison’s first novel, Wolf, begins with a two-page, 412-word sentence. He would say it was vanity, and that he wanted to show it could be done because he was a young writer...
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So You’ve Decide to Write: What I Learned Editing Hunter S. Thompson
There are conflicting stories about the first use of the word gonzo to describe Hunter’s journalism but all credit fellow journalist Bill Cardoso. Maybe it was on the press bus during the 1968 New...
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So You’ve Decided to Write: Take Advantage of Your Insomnia
When writers who usually stay out late go to bed early they often wake in the middle of the night thinking about their work. The run of ideas can seem relentless and exhausting. This can be a problem...
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So You’ve Decided to Write: On Editing James Salter
You had to find things out about Jim Salter. He never volunteered, never talked about himself, never. If you asked, he would answer questions, and sometimes tell a story if you pushed. But that’s not...
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So You’ve Decided to Write: Will You Tell the Truth?
Editors should never preach and that is not my intention, but whether you’re a journalist or a writer of fiction or an editor of either one, when you look in the mirror you should think tireless or...
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So You’ve Decided to Write: The Writer I Never Had to Edit
I called Tom McGuane in Livingston, Montana, when we were launching Outside magazine, out of the Rolling Stone offices in San Francisco. I had landed the job saying I would get interesting young...
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So You’ve Decided to Write: The Best Way to Deal with Rejection
An old editors’ joke is that the definition of a good editor is a person with no friends—the result of dealing honestly with writers, editing them with “a firm hand and terrifying clarity.” This still...
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So You’ve Decided to Write: Is Your Novel Actually Fiction or Non?
A young woman in a bar asked me if my novel, which she had heard about from the bartender, was fiction or nonfiction. The awesome post-literateness of her question was picked up by most of the fiction...
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So You’ve Decided to Write: How the Hell Do You Get Paid?
Some writers brag about being bad at business as if that elevates their writing careers to an admirable level of idealism. It doesn’t. The best writers all have business plans and are usually the best...
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How Hunter S. Thompson Would Cover Donald Trump
At the stroke of midnight in Washington, a drooling red-eyed beast with the legs of a man and a head of a giant hyena crawls out of its bedroom window in the South Wing of the White House and leaps...
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So You’ve Decided to Write: What I Learned From Editing Jim Harrison
The first chapter of Jim Harrison’s first novel, Wolf, begins with a two-page, 412-word sentence. He would say it was vanity, and that he wanted to show it could be done because he was a young writer...
View ArticleClik here to view.
So You’ve Decide to Write: What I Learned Editing Hunter S. Thompson
There are conflicting stories about the first use of the word gonzo to describe Hunter’s journalism but all credit fellow journalist Bill Cardoso. Maybe it was on the press bus during the 1968 New...
View ArticleClik here to view.
So You’ve Decided to Write: Take Advantage of Your Insomnia
When writers who usually stay out late go to bed early they often wake in the middle of the night thinking about their work. The run of ideas can seem relentless and exhausting. This can be a problem...
View ArticleClik here to view.
So You’ve Decided to Write: On Editing James Salter
You had to find things out about Jim Salter. He never volunteered, never talked about himself, never. If you asked, he would answer questions, and sometimes tell a story if you pushed. But that’s not...
View ArticleClik here to view.
So You’ve Decided to Write: Will You Tell the Truth?
Editors should never preach and that is not my intention, but whether you’re a journalist or a writer of fiction or an editor of either one, when you look in the mirror you should think tireless or...
View ArticleClik here to view.
So You’ve Decided to Write: The Writer I Never Had to Edit
I called Tom McGuane in Livingston, Montana, when we were launching Outside magazine, out of the Rolling Stone offices in San Francisco. I had landed the job saying I would get interesting young...
View ArticleClik here to view.
So You’ve Decided to Write: The Best Way to Deal with Rejection
An old editors’ joke is that the definition of a good editor is a person with no friends—the result of dealing honestly with writers, editing them with “a firm hand and terrifying clarity.” This still...
View ArticleClik here to view.
So You’ve Decided to Write: Is Your Novel Actually Fiction or Non?
A young woman in a bar asked me if my novel, which she had heard about from the bartender, was fiction or nonfiction. The awesome post-literateness of her question was picked up by most of the fiction...
View ArticleClik here to view.
So You’ve Decided to Write: How the Hell Do You Get Paid?
Some writers brag about being bad at business as if that elevates their writing careers to an admirable level of idealism. It doesn’t. The best writers all have business plans and are usually the best...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How Hunter S. Thompson Would Cover Donald Trump
At the stroke of midnight in Washington, a drooling red-eyed beast with the legs of a man and a head of a giant hyena crawls out of its bedroom window in the South Wing of the White House and leaps...
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