Starve Better<\/em>.<\/p>\nIf you haven’t had any of these things happen to you…\u00a0 heads up.<\/p>\n
Here’s a paragraph, again from Mamatas\u2019 Apex guest post, that ought to keep you coming back this week to see what Mamatas has to say: “I keep writing because I want to raise a freak flag and see who salutes, and see who prepares counter-protests. If I can keep my material out there despite the nasty emails and the occasional invitation to a parking lot punch-up, then there\u2019s hope. If editors or publishers will still take a chance, and accept my work though it doesn\u2019t \u2018quite fit\u2019 or exists \u2018outside the box\u2019 or \u2018pushes the boundary of profanity for what I am most comfortable printing\u2019\u2014to quote from some acceptance letters\u2014then the inevitable nastiness that follows is worth it. Anyone can write what the market or the public wants, after all. The trick is to write what nobody should want\u2026but which gets published anyway because quality still matters more than propriety or profit. That\u2019s how one starves better.”<\/p>\n
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Welcome to Nick Mamatas, who will be guest posting this week here at Booklife. Mamatas has been freelance writing and editing for little over a decade now.\u00a0 His experiences have been, to say the least, varied.\u00a0 In fact, his CV reads like a cut-and-paste from 12 different writer’s bibliographies.\u00a0 His list of credits is all over the map. On his blog, in his essays, and especially in his new book, Starve Better: Surviving the Endless Horror of the Writing Life, Mamatas writes with wit, honesty, and openness.\u00a0 Even when he’s getting himself into to trouble, he’s wide open and funny about it.\u00a0 (Or maybe that\u2019s part of the reason why he\u2019s getting in trouble?) Sometimes I don’t agree with Mamatas, but I keep reading–whether to see what he\u2019ll say next, to be convinced by what he has to say, or to find out how he’s going to get himself out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booklifenow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booklifenow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booklifenow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booklifenow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booklifenow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1645"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/booklifenow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1898,"href":"https:\/\/booklifenow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions\/1898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booklifenow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booklifenow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booklifenow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}