I swear that I'm really going to write about things I've learned from reading submissions, and having to justify either recommending or rejecting them. That last part is the brilliant thing about being a slush reader. I have to be able to articulate what's wrong with unrecommendable stories, and when I'm dealing with competently-written ones that just don't sparkle, it's a learning experience to explain the problems I see.
I will take pride where I can get it!
I swear that I'm really going to write about things I've learned from reading submissions, and having to justify either recommending or rejecting them. That last part is the brilliant thing about being a slush reader. I have to be able to articulate what's wrong with unrecommendable stories, and when I'm dealing with competently-written ones that just don't sparkle, it's a learning experience to explain the problems I see.
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2007 Books #42: Pen on Fire, by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett
My year's reading ends with a writing book. I think that I've reached a certain level for this topic. Books about writing tempt me endlessly, but…
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2007 Books #41: The 10% Solution, by Ken Rand
I hereby declare this book to be the most useful one I read all year. It briefly gives clear directions for cutting 10% of the words from your prose,…
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2007 Books #40: The Terror, by Dan Simmons
This book is a manual that shows exactly how not to plan and execute an exploratory voyage to the Arctic in the middle of the nineteenth century. For…
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