Make plans, but hold them loosely.
I arrived at my employer’s big event with my next issue thoroughly planned, the cover long since completed and every article accounted for.
But in a few minutes I realized those plans had to change. Before me stood my new cover — and my new cover story. Within an hour or so I’d taken the new cover photo. … Continue reading
And other reasons you may need an editor.
“I hope I don’t catch flack from my wife,” the author wrote me, “for having to write on Mother’s Day.”
I understood what he meant, even if he didn’t type flak.
What’s the difference? The first means a publicity agent. The second is a burst of anti-aircraft fire. I know which one I’d rather catch.
How can you insure … Continue reading
Give them the problems flagged in your junk emails.
Before I clear my spam folder, I always take a quick scan to check if there’s anything legitimate.
This past week as I scanned the subject line, I thought They must think my life’s a mess. Imagine if someone had all those problems.
I began to imagine just that — and decided that novelists … Continue reading