What's the next step in my career as a Business English Teacher? Get published!
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What does it take to become an ELT author these days? Why would you even want to? What’s it actually like to write a book? What types of product are publishers looking for? How do you choose a publisher and sell your idea to them? How do you write a proposal? How do you know who to send it to? Will they even read it? Do you need an agent – someone to help you get published? What does an agent actually do? What can you do to improve your chances? How should you promote yourself? Can your blog or Twitter account help? Or is it better to just forget all of this and self-publish? These are just some of the questions I’ll attempt to answer in this session, which is aimed at anyone who’s interested in how this whole publishing thing works.
Transcript of What's the next step in my career as a Business English Teacher? Get published!
Thursday, 21 June 12
What’s the next step in my career as a Business English teacher?
Get published!
Nick RobinsonParis, 16 June 2012
Thursday, 21 June 12
So you want to be a writer?
Thursday, 21 June 12
“Coleridge was a drug addict. Poe was an alcoholic.
Marlowe was killed by a man whom he was treacherously trying to stab.
Pope took money to keep a woman's name out of a satire, then wrote a piece so that she could still be recognized anyhow.
Chatterton killed himself.
Do you still want to a writer - and, if so, why?”
Bennett Cerf
Thursday, 21 June 12
On publishers, proposals and rejection
"Writing is not a genteel profession. It's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty."
Rosemary Mahoney
Thursday, 21 June 12
“If you're a freelance writer and aren't used to being ignored, neglected, and
generally given short shrift, you must not have been in the business very long.”
Poppy Z. Brite
Thursday, 21 June 12
On building your 'platform'
"oh this is going to be addictive"
Dom Sagolla, Twitter co-creator
Thursday, 21 June 12
On the future of publishing
"Content is king."
Bill Gates
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The Great Publishing Power Grab
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On the act of writing
“Being a good writer is 3% talent, 97% not being distracted by the Internet.”
Anonymous
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Thursday, 21 June 12
“I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it
screams, then stop.”
Clarence Budington Kelland
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“I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain
top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten - happy, absorbed and
quietly putting one bead on after another.”
Brenda Ueland
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“I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.”
Truman Capote
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On creativity and ideas
“I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.”
Steve Martin
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“The best way to have a good idea
is to have lots of ideas.”
Linus Pauling
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“Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them.
Most people don't see any.”
Orson Scott Card
Thursday, 21 June 12
“Most beginning writers - and I was the same - are like chefs trying to cook great dishes that they've never tasted
themselves. How can you make a great - or even an adequate -
bouillabaisse if you've never had any?”
Daniel Quinn
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On editing and criticism
“Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.”
Franklin Jones
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On making money
“Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.”
A. A. Milne
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On literary agents
"SHOW ME THE MONEY!"
Jerry Maguire
Thursday, 21 June 12
How can I get represented?
http://nickrobinsonelt.com/authors/get-represented/
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