Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Mon, Jul 17 2017
What does it mean to be a published writer?
While Samuel Clemens left us with a wealth of literature, his brother Orion Clemens' autobiographical writings were written in relative obscurity. He tried to mail them out and then they were lost (and probably found) in Grand Central Station in New York. It could be said that he was unpublished, but if someone found the writings now Orion would probably become a celebrated American author, if for no other reason than that his work took on a story of its own as he attempted to get it into a willing publisher's hands with the assistance of his brother. Barbara Schmidt fills in a lot of the story in this article. Reading it may make you feel better when someone asks whether you are a real, published author, since that designation is rarely as simple as it sounds. And there's always the fun of answering a complicated question with yet another convoluted story and letting the questioners figure out for themselves whether they are clever enough to understand your answer.
posted at: 15:21 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
While Samuel Clemens left us with a wealth of literature, his brother Orion Clemens' autobiographical writings were written in relative obscurity. He tried to mail them out and then they were lost (and probably found) in Grand Central Station in New York. It could be said that he was unpublished, but if someone found the writings now Orion would probably become a celebrated American author, if for no other reason than that his work took on a story of its own as he attempted to get it into a willing publisher's hands with the assistance of his brother. Barbara Schmidt fills in a lot of the story in this article. Reading it may make you feel better when someone asks whether you are a real, published author, since that designation is rarely as simple as it sounds. And there's always the fun of answering a complicated question with yet another convoluted story and letting the questioners figure out for themselves whether they are clever enough to understand your answer.
posted at: 15:21 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry