How Not to Write a Novel: Confessions of a Midlist Author
Our fifth excerpt from David Armstrong's entertaining book:
This offers a vital piece of advice for writers, which can avoid many problems when you're starting out:
'Try to write every day... if you don't write, you'll lose the habit.'
The Golden Rules for Starting a Small Business
Have you ever dreamed of starting your own business? Do you want to know what it's like? I mean, what it`s really like? Check out the White Ladder Press's 35 Golden Rules, gleaned from their publishing start-up.
Links update
Our latest update to our selected Links provides 25 new sites of interest to writers from Guardian Unlimited Not just for writers, but a must for anyone interested in books, this is quite simply one of the best places for keeping up with the literary world on the net. http://books.guardian.co.uk Branching Out, a UK librarians' site, offers highly innovative way of finding the book you would like to read, using the happy/sad, conventional/weird and other spectrums. www.branching-out.net/forager/
Poster
This month's new poster is More Wisdom from the Experts, including Murphy’s Fourth Law:
'If it is possible for several things to go wrong, the one that will cause the most damage is the one that will actually go wrong.'
