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A good story is like a motorcycle. All the parts move together and move forward. (7-8-99)
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A Pair of Persistent Threats
by Leonard Bishop There are two persistent threats that intimidate all inexperienced writers who want to write novels. And unless they avoid those threats, they will never write their novels. When I was instructing at the University of California, in … Continue reading
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The Writer’s Life: A Social Vacuum
by Leonard Bishop Don’t quit your present employer to become a professional writer until you have learned how to be alone. It is not the lack of talent or skill that stops someone from succeeding as a professional writer. Talent … Continue reading
Who Will Cast The First Stone?
by Leonard Bishop This is an apology to many easily forgettable best-selling writers. Some not exceptionally enlightened college students taught me a lesson I was needing to learn for years. About how to be critical of other writers. While my … Continue reading
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Tagged best American novelists, Dare to Be A Great Writer, Leonard Bishop, literary critique, modern writers, respecting writers, surviving as a writer, taking risks in writing, the writer's craft, writing advice, writing talent
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I Will Not Be Had
by Leonard Bishop Once I received a phone call from an editor on the staff of the writer’s Digest books. They were publishing my first non-fiction book on the craft of writing Dare to be a Great Writer. The … Continue reading
Writers Beware of Editors
by Leonard Bishop Writers do not get their novels published by writing for people. Long before the public reads what is written, it must be passed through the stratified structure of book-publishing editors. Writers should not struggle to understand the … Continue reading
We Always Do Our Best
by Leonard Bishop I can understand why people who write newspaper columns get tired of their usual readers and hope to gain others. Persistent readers take the columnist too seriously. They begin to believe they know the writer and thus … Continue reading
Writers Need Each Other
by Leonard Bishop, Author of Dare to Be a Great Writer Many writers are shriveling. They are alone, and isolated from each other. No one really cares if they are ever published and many of their families wish they would … Continue reading
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Open Fast and Stay Critical
by Leonard Bishop If the writer doesn’t write for his own Time, she is not ahead of her time, she is way behind. In this era the opening of the novel is the most important chapter that is written. Characters … Continue reading
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Tagged American Novelist, American writers, best American novelists, Creating openings in novels, Dare to Be A Great Writer, effective scenes, inventiveness, leads in novels, Leonard Bishop, starting a good novel, taking risks in writing, writing a novel, writing dramatic scenes
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They Are Leaping Toward A Dream
by Leonard Bishop, Author of Dare To Be A Great Writer As I drive to Manhattan to teach a writing class, I’m thinking about my students. They are beginning to see their own growth as writers. They are amazed. I … Continue reading
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