Anjali Sachdeva

A few years ago, I went through a phase where I watched episode after episode of the reality show America’s Next Top Model. It was a guilty pleasure; I loved seeing the contestants pose for photo shoots in telephone booths or freshly dug graves.

"We go to great lengths to work with writers to come up with really good proposals; they have to sell their idea to the crowd and upload some sample writing to give their prospective backers an insight into their writing style."

Rules.  Writing teachers love to sling them around, and writers love to cling to them.  Maybe it’s because creative writing is such a slippery and chameleonic undertaking that we’d like to believe there are some dependable guidelines we can trust. 

With the New Year quickly approaching, you may be reminded of those abandoned writing resolutions from last year, and wonder whether it’s ever possible to stick to your writing goals. In the waning hours of 2011, Forbes magazine offered 6 tips for keeping your New Year’s resolution; this year, Anjali Sachdeva revisits those suggestions from a writer’s perspective to help you create more resilient resolutions: 1.

In 1955, Jack Finney published his best-selling novel “The Body Snatchers,” a story that so captured the American imagination that it was made into a movie not once, but three times, having a much more lasting impact on popular culture than Finney’s more critically acclaimed novels.