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The Billboard editor on the streaming revolution, the collapse of the CD business, and what it is like to cover an industry that has been in structural upheaval for over a decade.
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The counterintuitive case for specialization -- including the writers who found that going deeper into one subject actually opened more doors than trying to cover everything at once.
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The photography, engagement, and business habits that have helped food bloggers build audiences large enough to support a full-time career -- and the inflection points that made the difference.
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The submission strategies and manuscript preparation habits that agents say give a book project its best chance of landing an offer from a major publishing house.
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Literary agents share the query and submission behaviors that help a manuscript stand out -- and the ones that instantly signal an author who is not ready for the major-league process.
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The MAD Magazine editor on the culture of a publication that has made institutional irreverence its entire identity -- and why he would not trade it for a serious journalism job.
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The NaNoWriMo founder on what he expected when he launched a month-long novel-writing challenge -- and how it grew into one of the most successful participatory writing movements in the world.
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The musician, producer, and director on how he manages multiple creative identities without losing focus -- and the discipline required to give each project the attention it actually deserves.
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Johnny Carson's longtime lawyer and confidant on the decades he spent guarding private knowledge -- and what finally convinced him the time had come to put it all on the page.
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The practical and psychological steps that help writers move past a killed piece -- including how to salvage the work, protect the relationship, and avoid what led there.
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