Rejection is Good for Your Writing

Reblogged from LA Screenwriter:

A new article in Nature.com discusses a study that shows scientific papers that are initially rejected ultimately have a greater impact in the long run:

Just had your paper rejected? Don’t worry — that might boost its ultimate citation tally. An excavation of scientific papers' usually hidden prepublication trajectories from journal to journal has found that papers published after having first been rejected elsewhere receive significantly more citations on average than ones accepted on first submission.

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Very Good Writing - Why Loki Won in The Avengers

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Spoiler Alert!  Avoid reading this post if you haven't seen The Avengers.

No really, look away!

O.k., let's talk about The Avengers, the highest grossing movie so far this year, and the movie on track to potentially unseat James Cameron's Avatar as highest grossing movie of all time.  Specifically, I want to talk about the writing and Loki, the film's key villain.  

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NaNoWriMo

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One more month until NaNoWriMo starts. More or less.

For those of you who don't know what NaNoWriMo is, we're talking about a competition that takes part in November. The goal is to write a novel. 50K words or more. That's not so bad. It's like 1,600 words a day or something like that.

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96 hours until the kickstarter for Ashly

96 hours until the kickstarter for Ashlyn’s Empathy is closed. All pledges over $5 get a copy of the ebook! http://kck.st/Tjx2HV

The prologue for my YA sci-fi novel Ashl

The prologue for my YA sci-fi novel Ashlyn’s Empathy is up! http://ow.ly/e5boC

How I raised $64,515 on Kickstarter, failed, and plan on doing it all over again soon.

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Final Numbers:

Total Backers: 809

Total Pledged: $64,515

Average pledge per backer: $79

Highest pledge: $2,500

Dollars pledged from Kickstarter website (search, discover): $4,957

Total backers and the amount pledged referred from Twitter: 238 backers who contributed $11,112

Total amount pledged referred from Facebook: $17,541

I’ve never been one to say “things happen for a reason” because I don’t believe they do.

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How to overcome the insecurity of a screenwriter...

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The novelist has been around for hundreds of years enduring criticism, rejection and failure, but the screenwriter is a modern vocation dating back to the 1900’s and the silent era of filmmaking.  The screenplay is an ever-changing, almost "live" document that is the blueprint of a motion picture.   As you journey deeper into your screenwriting adventure, you’ll learn that everything you write in the script is vulnerable to changes. 

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