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Written on the internet

Our weekly roundup of links we hope you’ll find interesting and useful.

Get focused and fired up with these 13 writing tips from author Chuck Palahniuk.
Screenwriters take note: Scriptapalooza — the only screenplay competition endorsed by both the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Writers Guild of Canada — is now accepting entries.
Former HarperCollins President and CEO Jane Friedman is one of the most influential people in publishing — whether you’re an established writer or an emerging one, you should know where she’s putting her publishing smarts these days.
From the “It’s Not Easy” department, a UK screenwriter on the practical challenges of launching a writing career.
From the “Reality Check” department, Tobias Buckell’s 2005 survey of author advances in SF/fantasy. Don’t let the date, or the genre, fool you into thinking that what you write will automatically be more lucrative. These numbers are good guidelines to set the expectations of any first-time novelist.
From the “Here’s Why Most of Us Don’t Get Big Advances” department, a series of four informative posts on publisher profit & loss (P&L) calculations.
And finally, from the “Why We Do It Anyway” department, Junot Diaz tells it like it is about the moment he became a writer — “There were no sudden miracles.” (Hat tip to Friend of SE Gwenda.)