Jerome Stern, Making Shapely Fiction

Dear Wrippers,
I have a soft copy of Jerome Stern's very useful writing manual Making Shapely Fiction. Any Wripper who wants a copy please comment here and I will send it. If you are registered on the blog I should have your email address.

Vikram Chandra tells it like it is

If you're feeling lost as to how to be an Indian writer in this increasingly confusing world, be not afraid, Vikram Chandra will guide you through the wilderness and bring you the laughter of Borges-bhai.

How they did it back then...

Here's Margaret Atwood's wonderfully witty take on writing poetry.

Excellent advice on writing

Here's John Scalzi's take on the writing life, thanks to Hurree

A site about agents

Someone asked me (can't remember who: my memory has become very poor since chemo) about the necessity of agents. Thankfully we as yet don't have any here in India. But the US is lousy with them, and if you want to see how much damage they do, check this out. Absolute Write is a forum for published writers. Take a tour, it's quite interesting.