Author Archive: Martine Fournier
THE SURPRISING SILVER LINING OF UNSUCCESSFULNESS
THE SURPRISING SILVER LINING OF UNSUCCESSFULNESS There is a lot of fuss and celebration when a book comes into the world: we do interviews, readers tag us in social media posts, friends near and far send congratulations. And then, inevitably, the world moves on. Messages—and sales—slow down, sometimes to a trickle, and for some, the […]
Slow Writing
We live in a fast-paced world. Technology is changing at an exponential rate, our satellite phone calls bounce into space and back again in a heartbeat, and a Japanese bullet train can take you from Tokyo to Osaka in 150 minutes. Sometimes I feel hopelessly behind, because unlike virtually everything else around me, I am […]
Writing versus Not Writing
Most of us writers are plagued by bad habits: we repeat a pet phrase five times in a chapter and don’t even notice, we use too many adverbs, too many fancy dialogue tags. Some of us have even been known to hold ourselves hostage to our own perfectionism. But I think there is general agreement […]
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