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rachelfershleiser: Not Just a Blog: How Publishers and Writers Can—and Should—Use Tumblr to Create and Promote. (Fernanda Diaz, Rachel Fershleiser, Michele Legro, Ryan Chapman, Miles Klee) This panel aims to demystify Tumblr for the first-time user and outline good Tumblr practices for more seasoned members. Panelists will talk about the rewards—and the challenges—of running a successful Tumblr that helps publishers and writers promote their work, interact with readers, and contribute to the growing literary community on the site. ——- I will be on a panel at AWP with four people smarter than I am. We will talk about Tumblr strategies for authors, big publishers, indie presses, and lit mags. We will be informal and tell you secrets and say fuck a lot. We will probably give you stickers/kisses at the end. What I’m saying is, don’t miss it!  Friday, 1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. Room 312, Level 3 Friends! If you’re at AWP stop by our panel. We’ll be doling out high-fives. 

rachelfershleiser:

Not Just a Blog: How Publishers and Writers Can—and Should—Use Tumblr to Create and Promote.

(Fernanda Diaz, Rachel Fershleiser, Michele Legro, Ryan Chapman, Miles Klee)

This panel aims to demystify Tumblr for the first-time user and outline good Tumblr practices for more seasoned members. Panelists will talk about the rewards—and the challenges—of running a successful Tumblr that helps publishers and writers promote their work, interact with readers, and contribute to the growing literary community on the site.

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I will be on a panel at AWP with four people smarter than I am. We will talk about Tumblr strategies for authors, big publishers, indie presses, and lit mags. We will be informal and tell you secrets and say fuck a lot. We will probably give you stickers/kisses at the end. What I’m saying is, don’t miss it! 

Friday, 1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. Room 312, Level 3

Friends! If you’re at AWP stop by our panel. We’ll be doling out high-fives. 

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It was a difficult book to write. It was difficult fighting my own tendency towards smoothness. Smoothness can be a great advantage in a novel, a great asset to keep things bobbing along at a certain pace; but it can also be a way of being glib, of passing over what should be more closely examined. I wanted to create a different quality of attention in my reader.

Practically speaking, too, it was just a long process. Seven years is a long time and I had other obligations. It’s different writing with children and without, different writing at my age as compared to when I was 22. But despite the difficulties I found it to be by far the most rewarding writing experience of my life so far.

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Zadie Smith on writing NW.

“I think my answer might be a little bit controversial — I think almost nothing is worth sweating in the first draft. Does a character need to change genders? Do you want to shift the structure? Just do it, and keep moving forward. Finishing a draft of a novel is so hard, and so enormous, that one needs all the momentum possible. If you stop and go back to the beginning every time you want to change something, you will never finish. Just go go go! You will have the time to go back and fix all your mistakes, right your wrongs, etc. Just get to the end of the first draft. The feeling of accomplishment is sweet enough to spur you on to make even the most major changes in revision.”

Emma Straub on first drafts, from The Millions.