News For Writers

I can understand regretting writing a book, and symphatize with those regretting reading a book, but writing a book on regret? Seems a couple of odd-ball professors at Mount Saint Mary College are writing a book on regret. I hope they don't end up regretting writing it. Now let's move on to other news before you end up regretting reading this post.

"Like a dark and stormy night, bad writing has long shadowed the business world..." begins the AP's Dave Carpenter. Whatever he's talking about, I'll skip straight to the end, "But there still isn't much of a market overall for business-writing classes, according to Peter Handal, CEO of Dale Carnegie Training.
'I think that would suggest that people are just so happy to get the communications going that they aren't spending the time on how to communicate,' he said."
Memo to Dave: Get The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest out of your mind. And secondly, Peter Handal is right. You know what's the most beautiful prose I ever recieved by email? "Article accepted. Paypal sent."

VOA has an article out profiling a child prodigy writer, whose first book was published when she was 7 years old. Cough! Cough! Ack! "Adora Svitak started writing when she was only four. She published her first book Flying Fingers at seven, and authored more than 400 short stories. 'Flying Fingers' was published in four languages for international audiences. Recently she was invited to New York City's Stony Brook University to speak to aspiring children and their parents at the Charles Wang Center."

Finally, there's good news and there's bad news. The Philly has the good news that poetry and creative writing are hot and there's lots of new jobs and openings in the creative writing field. The bad news is that these jobs are for teaching students creative writing. Well, if you can't write, teach.