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Books For a Buck at Housing Works’ Annual Street Fair - Markets - Racked NY

Open Air Street Fair is coming! Sunday, June 2 on Crosby Street.

yeahwriters:

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According to [Peter] Benchley, “Jaws was the last, desperate compromise between me and my editor some twenty minutes before the book had to go to press. I had fiddled with a hundred alternatives, more or less: Great White, The Shark, The Jaws of Death, a few Françoise Sagan rip-offs, likeA Silence in the Water; and a few helpful suggestions from my father, to wit: What’s That Noshin’ on My Laig? At last, my editor and I agreed that we didn’t like any of the suggested titles, and in fact, the only word we liked in any permutation was ‘jaws.’ I recall saying something to the effect of, ‘Screw it, then, let’s call it Jaws,’ and my editor saying something like, ‘Okay, what the hell…’ My father didn’t like it; my agent didn’t like it; my wife didn’t like it; and I didn’t much like it. But the bottom line was, who cares? Nobody reads first novels anyway.”

The Fascinating Stories Behind Classic Book Titles

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thewritershelpers:

This will not help everyone and some of you may plan in a completely different way. However, a lot of people struggle with where to begin so here we go.

Where do I start?

I would make a mindmap of everything you already know about your novel. This can be…

megzuki:

Happens to me so often!

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