J.L. Newton, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books http://booksbywomen.org/author/judithnewton/ Tue, 12 Sep 2017 08:54:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Always Recycle https://booksbywomen.org/always-recycle-by-jl-newton/ https://booksbywomen.org/always-recycle-by-jl-newton/#respond Tue, 12 Sep 2017 10:47:16 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=20302 “Always Recycle” The best piece of writing advice I ever got came from Bird by Bird by Annie Lamott. It had to do with accepting the idea of  “ shitty first drafts.” The second best piece of advice came from a professor whose teaching assistant I had been in English graduate school in the 1960s. […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/always-recycle-by-jl-newton/feed/ 0 20302 What’s Food Doing in Your Fiction? https://booksbywomen.org/whats-food-doing-in-your-fiction-by-j-l-newton/ https://booksbywomen.org/whats-food-doing-in-your-fiction-by-j-l-newton/#comments Tue, 13 Jun 2017 05:00:24 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=19426 I’m mildly obsessed with writing about food, both in memoir and in mystery, so I paid attention when a blogger recently complained about the preponderance of food scenes in fiction, warning authors to give those scenes tension and to make them advance the plot. It’s not bad advice, although I think it more important that authors […]

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