While preparing myself for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), I browsed the nanowrimo.org web site and saw a “Get Sponsored!” link. Intrigued, I clicked, and was initially pretty happy: You can get friends and family to sponsor your novel-writing month…
Day: October 12, 2008
Pulp Direction
Today is the birthday of Lester Dent, creator of Doc Savage (“The Man of Bronze”). Writer’s Almanac describes his formula for writing a 6,000-word pulp story: Dent wrote more than a thousand pulp fiction stories, all with the same formula,…