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In a 1997 interview, the Voice asked Kurt Vonnegut why he had never written about his time as a prisoner of war in Germany aside from that one central episode, the firebombing of Dresden. He responded, essentially, that being a prisoner of war was a story with no protagonist, no hero. "It was an utterly passive experience. . . . Hell, I did nothing. It was all done to me. So you don't want to talk about it." |
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In 2005, when John Banville heard his name called as the winner of the Booker Prize for his novel The Sea, he looked around the hall and thought, Imagine how many people hate me right now. In the 38 years he's spent writing fiction, Banville has certainly acquired a few enemies—many of them stung by his waspish, acute reviews in The Irish Times and The New York Review of Books. He's also obtained a loyal coterie of readers, who celebrate his baroque prose and ambitious structures. But in the Irish writer's latest books, a series of noir novels published under the pseudonym Benjamin Black, he has has let slip some of his stylistic and structural opulence. In 2007's Christine Falls and the just-released The Silver Swan, Banville—or, shall we say, Black—has crafted a set of detective novels set amid the mist-swathed Dublin of the 1950s, both featuring the pathologist-cum-detective Quirke. |
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One of the most common questions a fledgling freelancer asks is,
"Someone wants me to write some articles for them and name my price.
How much do I charge?"
You have to come up with a number... so what do you do?
There are lots of things you can do to determine a price to charge:
First, you can charge a flat-rate for your writing and sell it the same to every person.
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Freelance writers who want to get ahead do so by keeping abreast with
the developing world, new laws, new business trends and even political
and religious opinion.
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The spoof horror writer Garth Marenghi, created by comedian Matt Holness, used to boast: "I'm the only man I know who's written more books than he's read." But even he might have drawn the line at not having read the books he has written, which is more than can be said for some of today's bestselling novelists. |
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The Associated Press, following criticism from bloggers over an AP assertion of copyright, plans to meet this week with a bloggers' group to help form guidelines under which AP news stories could be quoted online. |
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