http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=D+Field Writing D Field Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=357783&ca=Writing I have a sure-fire way of getting your work seriously looked at by a publisher, the essential first step to getting into print. I discovered it only very recently. An American friend, another writer, sent it to me. He described it as follows. It all started like this. It’s Friday today but just on W... Writing D Field Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=357784&ca=Writing I have suggested a couple of ways to get published in earlier articles. There is the standard route of submitting endlessly to publishers. Or there is the less orthodox route, described in the previous article, of impersonating a famous author. There are no doubt several other still less orthodox ro... Writing D Field Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=357793&ca=Writing An important technique to attract the attention of a publisher, but one which is rarely described, is to send in something so startling, original and surprising that your submission is not immediately placed in the reject tray. This originality and cause for interest, not to say astonishment, can ta... Writing D Field Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=357794&ca=Writing Extreme branding in fiction There is nothing better than a good biography and there is nothing worse than a book which poses as biography, has a smattering of truth in it and then sells itself as fact – pseudobiography, usually with conversation. We are all wary of the peddling of lies by the media,... Writing D Field Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=357798&ca=Writing Satire is a powerful means of releasing frustration and poking fun at our adversaries. I outline here a further tactic for satirizing the business of writing and getting published. This time it is through the use of purple prose, not seen since the days of Rider Haggard and other great Victorian exp... Writing D Field Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=347690&ca=Writing When you write fiction, by what code are you held? What principles bind your work into a coherent whole? Do you need principles at all or can you write an anarchic story line governed by no other law except that it should be exciting to read? Should you analyze and agonize or should you just let you...