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Copyright Gargoyle

When is it OK to rip off copyrighted material? It all depends on the ambiguity of fair use. Difficult to define, but you know it when you see it. Here are some examples of fair use, as far …

It’s only a matter of time before self-publishing becomes the next traditional publishing, an outmoded, outdated form of publishing. You-publishing is the next wave of publishing. With you-publishing, you publish my novels and collections of short stories. You-publishing can be …

Moments that grip, surprise, twist, amuse, frighten, and seduce have no business in fiction. The unpublishable writer must consider half-baked, haphazard moments. The story won’t elevate to the level of unreadable unless it’s stuffed full of these moments.

• The moment

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My credo, divorced from reality:
Don’t brag about your lightning fiction writing pace,
for Slow and Steady won the fiction publishing race.

I recently read an online article on “Book Writing Tips to Speed Write Your Book for Maximum …

What might some of John Gardner’s Art of Fiction exercises looked like if he had a pathological obsession for Zen koans and parlour games?

4a. Describe a landscape as seen by an old woman whose disgusting and detestable old husband …

You are about to read an online article by an Unpublished Guy, Fiction Novels, a Profile of Italo Calvino. You crouch in front of the computer screen and use the pointing device to select the Read More link. The site …