The Word Cloud

If you're tempted to pay someone to help you write your book (as opposed to paying an editorial service to help you make it better), read this. Just not alone, and not in the dark.

http://www.howpublishingreallyworks.blogspot.com/

Emma

Shudder!!

This would make a novel in itself.

Creepy!

Looks like there's a wee timorous beastie roaming about up there in the Hiills of Scotland.

A long time ago I attempted to interest a playwright in some material that I thought suitable for a musical. These were only general enquiries to a few theatre groups as I had no experience of the genre whatsoever. Nobody was interested in reading the material at all. I abandoned the attempt very quickly and attended a few writing groups instead.

Emma, that truly is a horror story! *shudders*

The literary equivalent of the blonde bimbo who gets torn apart by zombies/werewolves etc fifteen minutes into the film.

Gosh, that's awful. One of the threads embedded in that link, goes on for 1,100 posts and was worryingly compelling; took me an hour to get only halfway through! The poor sods didn't know when to shut up, did they? They just kept providing more and more fodder and seemed amazed when people kept on chewing lumps out of them.
I was quite startled to see that the agent never managed to write two consecutive sentences without a mistake. That must be some skill.
Thanks for posting - great find!

Yes, those AbsoluteWrite WaterCooler threads are horridly compulsive reading, aren't they.