After weeks of frantic effort, I returned my revised manuscript for Committed: A Memoir of the Artist's Road to the publisher a day before its July 1st deadline. And now I wait. I'm learning that in publishing there are deadlines and there are dead times. I met the deadline of providing the publisher a revised …
Month: June 2014
5 Creativity Lessons from Hall of Fame Inventors
What are some secrets of truly creative thinking? Who better to ask than Hall of Fame inventors? That's exactly what I did last month when I was able to speak with several 2014 inductees into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, or NIHF, as well as past inductees. As I wrote back in April, NIHF …
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Road to Publication: Killing Your Babies Part Two
A memoirist always runs the risk of offending the living when capturing them in prose. But he also runs the risk of offending them by omission. In Part One of this series I discussed how I have reduced my manuscript of Committed: A Memoir of the Artist's Road over the course of the last year, in anticipation …
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Road to Publication: Killing Your Babies Part One
"Your reader will never miss what she doesn't know was once there." I frequently told this to reporters in my news-editing career when I would trim their stories for length. Often what I was cutting was their favorite part--their baby, if you will--but it didn't sufficiently inform the reader on the main point of the …
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Road to Publication: Fun with Video
With a thousand things to do before Committed: A Memoir of the Artist's Road publishes this fall, I've found it difficult to return my focus to this blog. There's the heavy-duty editing I'm doing to the manuscript, a final pass-through by me before the publisher takes a shot at it. And there's crafting my promotional …
The Artist's Road 