This Writing Life

The hilarity just doesn’t stop. Consequently, a typical writer apparently earns 33 per cent less than the national average wage. ► Literary Life – Telegraph via Jon Courtenay Grimwood

For this week’s Guardian Review, established authors were asked to produce ten writing ‘rules’. I agree with some of them and disagree with others. (For reasons best known to The Guardian, there is no web link at present for this feature, despite links to every other article in that section.) Update: James Viner points out [...]

Dani Shapiro on the ‘sell – or else’ mentality. If they were enrolled in medical school, in all likelihood they would wind up doctors. If in law school, better than even odds, they’d become lawyers. But writing school guarantees them little other than debt. ► A writing career becomes harder to scale – latimes.com