NaNoWriMo Day #13: Don’t Just Say No
by Sue Burke Rejections and fun don’t mix – except this one time. I wrote a horror story about vampires and started sending it out. The…
by Sue Burke Rejections and fun don’t mix – except this one time. I wrote a horror story about vampires and started sending it out. The…
By Dan Koboldt Perseverance is probably the most important factor in building a successful writing career. NaNoWriMo offers a telling example of this. Thousands of people…
By Jilly Gagnon I started writing in earnest during my senior year in college. I’d take my Moleskine to the coffee shop on free afternoons, buy…
Freeways and Dead Ends As the wading continues through this week’s Swamps of Creation, the next item of consideration is the benefits of workshopping your book,…
Today I’d like to talk about what sort of writing resume I’m looking for in a query letter, and specifically about short story credits. In On…
Keeping Persistence As we wade into the swamps of creation, it’s necessary to have one’s floaties on. This is to ensure that the path to…
The Kiss of Death: Vague Edition 350 words to explain me and my book and also be awesome? How in the heck am I supposed to…
The Email Attachment Quandary Today I want to talk about one of my pet peeves: unrequested attachments. I have received several query letters that consist of…
Desperation As we further discuss the query process this week, even the best intentioned query can reflect the worst of all scenarios: desperation. This happens when…
The Kiss of Death: Personalization Edition There are a million different sites online dedicated to helping unagented authors find that special (bookish) someone. Pretty much every…