Ana Elsner's Blog

• The Tyranny of Marketability

  July 8, 2009

  • My agent wishes I would be monogamous, asks me to choose the one writing bed I will sleep in. ....I am too hard to market sprawled all over the writing landscape, says devorah major in an article about multi-genre writers. This is a harsh reality that most of us are faced with. It forces us to reexamine the true objective of our writing, is it to garner fame and fortune, or rather to exercise the ...
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• Calling all Poets and Non-Poets

  June 12, 2009

  • Ready to take a break?  Appreciate a spark of wit?  Interested in trying your hand at something new and different?  Wanna join the club?  Then   click and transport yourself here.   This is a nifty Red Room feature which I discovered just yesterday.  The particular forum is playful and all-inclusive.  No need to qualify by first meeting the criteria and agendas of various ...
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• On Cruising the Blog-Scene

  April 4, 2009

  • "Crank up your espresso machine, you’ll need all the caffeine you can stomach, as the hours go by while you click your way through an endless labyrinth of diaries and diatribes.Pull up your emotional bootstraps and be prepared to wade through a vast pool of heart-wrenching exposés on the minutiae of a million private lives.This journey is not for the faint-hearted. As you deftly maneuver ...
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