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In anticipation of our first annual publishing conference, we’ve rounded up advice from your favorite authors to help demystify the daunting task of honing and proving your skills as a published author. Read on to glean valuable insider advice about what to read, what to ignore, and how to keep the faith, from the author of Forgotten Country, Catherine Chung.
1. Try to focus on the things you can control in your work, and to let go of things you can’t—like the reactions of other people to your work.
2. Read what other writers have said about writing: it will help you feel less alone.
3. Don’t let discouraging rumors stop you from going after agents, conferences, and publications you want: it is totally possible to get a good agent or publication or spot in a conference or residency from the slush.
4. Self loathing can be productive, but when it’s not, let it go. It is its own form of arrogance.
5. Be brave. Be bold. Have faith.
“81 Bowery is their home and their only choice for a place to live.”
Maroosha Muzaffar talks to a taxi-dancer, who works at one of the many taxi-bars in Jackson Heights, Queens, where lonely immigrant men pay for a dance and a shot at love.
There are 42,000 cab drivers in New York City--and 82% of them are immigrants. Many from them from white collars jobs back in their home country.
Writer Katie Salisbury goes on a quest to Mission Chinese to check out the monster success of Asian hipster cuisine.
Kyla Cheung talks to Ashok Rajamani about his uniquely humor-filled memoir recovering from an aneurysm at the age of 25.
After teaching at Wuhan University, I started to write short stories, prose and stories for childrens books. I need help in translation and more background on culture. My email is bluelotusflower03@hotmail.com which comes from one of the Sutra’s of Buddhism. Can you help? dirk