Thoughtful links for writers

I've been surprisingly swamped by the start-up of a busy semester, but here are a couple of interesting pieces for you writers out there.

For the deliciously talented Sergio Troncoso's take on revising his new novel, click to his blog post "Rewriting."  (I was happy to see that he, too, thinks Susan Bell's The Artful Edit is "perhaps the best" book on revising your own work; I waxed admiring about it here.)

For chick-lit author Jennifer Weiner's take on gender bias in the reception of male- and female-authored memoirs of screwing up one's life, click to her blog post and watch her review the reviewers:

If you’re a dude and you write about, say, smoking pot with your prepubescent son, scoring coke with your daughters asleep in your car, or spewing uncontrollable diabetes-related diarrhea all over your son’s back seat, well then you, sir, have written “a bruising survival story,” or a “brave, heartfelt, often funny, often frustrating book.”

If you’re a chick who sleeps around and lives to tell (and sell) the tale, you’re greedy, vain and charmless. If you’re a guy who spends nights on end looking at Internet porn and days investing in drug companies that overcharge cancer patients for their cures, then you’re “formidably smart.”

Sigh.  No newsflash there.  Hey, feminists:  review more books!