Career Writing in Three Steps

[Landslide]

Career Writing in Three Steps

An interesting article. I specially agree with the first step.

 

[Hugh]

The article mentions attending writer workshops. I've always wondered if best selling or award winning authors made use of writer workshops? I've never heard any of them mention it.

 

[Lovecraftian]

King mentions them, and says they are about as useful as a hangnail. He says that having *other amateurs* look at and critique your work is definitely counter-productive. A professor is one thing, but other learning students are quite another.

 

[Peder]

. . . having *other amateurs* look at and critique your work is definitely counter-productive. A professor is one thing, but other learning students are quite another.

I have certainly experienced the truth of that in one writing group I was temporarily a member of recently.

 

[Lovecraftian]

Yeah, it really seems lazy and wrong to me.