How to Never Be a Writing “Failure”
Dealing with rejection doesn’t have to be a discouraging experience. Here, P.S. Hoffman offers five ways to fail smarter and set yourself up for success, [Read More]
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How to Make Money as a Writer (Even if You’ve Never Earned a Dime)
Opportunities for writers are plentiful and wide-ranging, if you know where to look. From blogging and copywriting to editing and freelancing, there are jobs to [Read More]
Why I’ll Never Tell Anyone They Can’t Write
I was in a writing class once where the teacher decided to do a sentence-by-sentence critique of the first of page a student’s story. The [Read More]
At An Author Book Reading, You Should Never, Ever Do This One Thing
I have attended hundreds of readings and literary events, both as an observer and as a coordinator. I absolutely love attending readers, and every event [Read More]
COMMA CHAMELEON: Behind Most Good Books, There’s a Merlin You’ll Never Meet
What’s as shy as a leopard, sharp as a scalpel and helps wag the tale? A fine editor, of course. Hottish off the press, the [Read More]
New York’s Most Popular Writing Method You’ve Never Heard Of
Even if you have zero interest in writing, you’ve probably seen a cab-yellow newsstand of catalogs for Gotham Writers Workshop, or the lime green advertisements [Read More]
The Author of ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Almost Never Got Published
As Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling are feted in almost every major magazine as the stars of the upcoming “A Wrinkle in Time” [Read More]
12 of the best British short stories you’ve never read
If you were asked to name a famous novel, or even a famous poem, you could probably rattle off at least a handful quite comfortably [Read More]
Jon McGregor: ‘I have never been asked how I juggle writing and fatherhood’
I read an interview in the New Yorker recently with Mikaela Shiffrin, one of the world’s leading slalom skiers, in which she talked about how little time she actually spends on the slopes. After accounting for the hours spent travelling between training runs, kitting out, warming up and sitting on chairlifts, even the most dedicated skier will struggle to get more than seven minutes skiing out of a training day. Contrary to the famous Malcolm Gladwell assertion that success requires 10,000 hours of practice, Shiffrin considers it the height of dedication to be achieving 11 hours of skiing over the course of a year.
(Fun fact: I have never been asked how I juggle writing and fatherhood. I’m not complaining; it’s nobody’s business, and nothing to do with writing. But I wonder what assumptions lie behind the question of juggling writing and motherhood coming up so regularly?)