Any writers?

[ShebaPoe]

I wrote a few technical books and I've had some short stories published. I don't write a lot of happy ones. There are all sorts of books out there; the annually published "writer's market" can help you. However, my biggest writing successes, commercially worth several hundred thousands dollars, arose because I simply contacted a company's corporate HQ with a suggestion.

here are some ridiculously simple rules to improving your ability as a writer:

(1) write 500 words a day. Any topic. Fiction or not. Do this every day. AO posts don't count.

(2) Challenge yourself to convey something you witnessed during the day in writing. Focus on things which are difficult to explain. So much of our verbal communication requires body language; strip all of that away and try it.

Isaac Asimov

Why am I not the least bit suprised to get that answer?

[Jonas Grumby]

Originally Posted by campbell

A paper on Dante v Niven/Pournelle: back to David Foster Wallace
.

[tan]I met Jerry Pournelle, and thought he was a pompous putz.[/tan]

[campbell]

Originally Posted by Jonas Grumby

[tan]I met Jerry Pournelle, and thought he was a pompous putz.[/tan]

That does not surprise me in the least.

My paper was featured on Niven's website at one point. There's probably still a link there.

[Patrick Bauer]

I was a technical writer for a time. I have been paid to write other business related things as well. (I wouldn't exactly call all of it nonfiction...)
I have won a couple of online awards for short fiction (erotica).
I write daily. (I agree with Sheba regarding writing practice)

I sometimes write poetry, when the mood strikes me.

[Patrick Bauer]

Originally Posted by vtek

http://iwl.me/

who do you write like? i am hemmingway

Story fragment = Steven King

Description (a couple of AO posts) = Cory Doctorow

A wedding toast = James Joyce

Story fragment = Chuck Palahniuk

[FourKicks]

i majored in english, creative writing track. my senior thesis was an eighty page novella. some classmates said my writing reminded them of roald dahl. i applied to hollins college, which has an mfa program specifically for children's lit, but i did not get accepted.

after college i became an actuary. not much time to write anymore. just a blog entry every now and then. so it goes.

[IMP]

i write penthouse forum letters.

[IMP]

i also write red shoe diaries

[SirVLCIV]

Originally Posted by FourKicks

so it goes.

RN