"A bit of advice is worth repeating: don't listen for praise, but for constructive criticism, the kind that you can take home and use to better your manuscript."
That's some tough-love advice from Lance Olsen's writing handbook, Rebel Yell, a trusted staple of plenty of professional writers--including myself.
Lance Olsen has written nine novels, and stopped by for an interview last year. We discussed his new book, Anxious Pleasures and he shared dynamite tips.
He taught us How To Revise Our Novels, Mercilessly.
Followed by advice on How To Outline Your Novel.
Then he shared Three Pieces of Writing Advice for the Price of One.
Then taught us How Writing Groups Can Help Your Writing.
What's going on? I'm on vacation this week, and there's nothing you can do to stop me.
To keep you happy while I travel far, far, far from the city, I'm posting some of my favorite traveling writer interviews I've collected at The Publishing Spot--building a complete interview library in the process.
“Hey LadyStar readers! We’ve got us a double-update on the growing Legends of Aventar Gallery. Z-bot found four great upcoming pages from the Varcarel Jade Web Comic, and we’re going to add all of them as we update our profiles on the various web comic directories. Keep looking for clues and see if you can help Cici find our friends. Acey out.”
“Big barbed warhammer and plate armor can only mean one thing.”
“What.”
“Rock and roll!”
“heheeee….”
“Looky! It’s meeeeee! And there’s Teko and my new sword!”
“Looks like we’re putting the team together for our new gallery project.”
“Ooh, it’s got the new logo too. I love new stuff.”
“We’re gonna start our new gallery today, ’cause Talitha said there’s gonna be this button and it will have all our pictures in it and it changes all by itself. She gots all the best drawings too, and lots of them are warriors and treasures.”
“This is a new category too, so if you want to see our gallery updates, they’ll all be linked to the Legends of Aventar Gallery category.”
“Sweet, let’s get going!”