Anne R. Allen's Blog... with Ruth Harris
Writing about writing. Mostly.
by Anne R. Allen Early into our journeys in wordsmithing, most writers discover our chosen art form has a major drawback: everybody’s a *&@! critic. For some reason, folks who happily offer praise to fledgling musicians, quilters, sculptors, or Star Trek action-figurine painters, feel compelled to launch into scathing critiques of the efforts of […]
This is one of my most pirated columns from Inkwell Newswatch. I’ve found copied on dozens of other blogs. (I’m flattered, pirates, as long as you give me attribution.) I wrote it in May of 2005, when I was working for an indie publisher in the UK, now defunct, but the principles remain the same. […]
by Anne R. Allen I’m starting to pull my old columns from the INkwell Newswatch archives. I hope to post updated versions here for the next few months. This is from June 2007, in response to lots of questions I was getting about the necessity of attending conferences. Writers’ Conferences–the INside Scoop Writers’ Conference […]
I’m starting a blog on Friday the 13th. What does that say about me? Am I thumbing my nose at superstition, or commencing an exercise in self-defeat? Is this a way to have a web presence, or to avoid work–crying into an already blog-saturated wilderness? I just made this disappear. And then come back. I’m […]
