Live Like Your Favorite Author (at your own peril)

by on June 20, 2011 in Self Publishing, Writing Tips

Teachers tell their students all the time: “Emulate the writers you admire.”

This advice is usually given as encouragement to try on different tonal and stylistic hats. But if you’re feeling particularly brazen or self-destructive, you could actually emulate their lives as well.

Emily Temple from Flavorpill has been having some fun exploring various aspects of famous authors’ lives.

Learn how to:

1. drink like your favorite authors

2. insult people like your favorite authors

3. look like your favorite author while writing

Have as many mint juleps as you like, but please remember that the world needs YOU, not another Faulkner, Joyce, or Plath.

-Chris R. at BookBaby

Chris Robley

About Chris Robley

Chris Robley has written 370 posts in this blog.

splits his time between the Portlands Oregon and Maine, always longing for the other. He plays music on the West Coast and writes poems on the East. His music has been praised by NPR, the LA Times, the Boston Globe, and others. Skyscraper Magazine said he is “one of the best short-story musicians to come along in quite some time.” Robley’s poetry is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, RHINO, Pacifica Literary Review, and The Fine Line.