{"id":6356,"date":"2012-01-09T16:24:43","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T23:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=6356"},"modified":"2012-01-09T16:24:43","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T23:24:43","slug":"the-writing-room-can-this-guy-make-me-a-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/the-writing-room-can-this-guy-make-me-a-star\/","title":{"rendered":"The Writing Room: Can This Guy Make Me a Star?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeff Greenwald<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/em><\/p>\n

I’m\u00a0getting out of\u00a0my writing room long enough\u00a0to take Jeff Greenwald’s Page to Stage class at the San Francisco Writers Grotto.<\/p>\n

It starts Jan. 17. Sounds like fun. I think there are still spaces available. Join me???? Here’s the link.<\/p>\n

Jeff\u00a0 is a journalist, author and stage performer. And he’s got a book out\u00a0called Shopping for Buddhas<\/em>. Sounds like an interesting guy. Let’s see if he can turn me into\u00a0Tina Fey\u00a0in four short weeks.<\/p>\n

Seriously, I have an agenda here. I’m pretty happy with the state of my book, Finding Holy<\/em>. It’s 95% written. OK, 90%. It only needs tweaking and the filling in of a few modest holes.<\/p>\n

But I’ve got at least one agent and multitudes of editors and publicists at book publishers, big and small, telling me that Platform, with a capital P,\u00a0is everything. One editor even told me that it’s easier for a publisher to fix up a book that is mediocrely written than it is to get attention for a book and author who’s got no platform.<\/p>\n

OK, what’s Platform? It’s your credentials to write a book (which I have), but it’s also the ready-made, identifiable audience that a writer brings with her when she or her agent approaches a publisher. Giving talks, leading workshops and getting onto NPR are mighty helpful. (So does keeping this blog, btw. Help my Platform; send the link to your friends!)<\/p>\n

Soooo. In the interest of strengtheining my Platform, I’m off to Jeff’s class next week. Let’s hope he can make me a star of stage and screen. Or, better yet, a published author.<\/p>\n

To be continued . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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