I make my living as a writer, but I consider myself a lowly farm boy when it comes to teaching writers how to keep readers interested.
Many others could give better advice: Shakespeare and Austen, for example. They, however, aren't writing much these days, so I'll take my best shot.
The most popular forms of modern writing – blogs, Facebook and Twitter – were unheard of a decade or so ago.
Writers used to submit their work to what were known as “magazines,” defined by Merriam-Webster as “periodicals containing miscellaneous pieces (as articles, stories, poems) and often illustrated.” Try to imagine websites printed on paper.
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Published on December 08, 2013 03:50