It’s Friday night and starting another round of snow out here in Omaha land. Never fear; here are Five Links to get you through the weekend. 1. Let’s start with a common problem. The problem of not having your first draft written. Fortunately, for those of us suffering from that problem, here is Victoria Griffin […]
How to get your query read
Whether you are submitting a short story to a token-paying ezine or a completed manuscript to an agent, the chance of receiving a rejection letter is still exponentially higher than receiving an acceptance. I like to look at the bright side and say that we can always learn from a rejection letter and that everyone […]
Five Links Friday 11/10/17
Here we are again for another Five Links Friday. Have a great weekend and enjoy! 1. Here’s a good post by Liam Carnahan at Writers Helping Writers on Diversifying Your Characters’ Voices. This is so important because you will lose readers if they can’t differentiate between your characters. 2. For those of you looking for […]
Podcast Episode 47 – Writing Conferences and Communities
In this episode of The Write Good Books Podcast, Jason and Scott take a look at a recent writing conference they attended and also discuss the benefits of attending writing conferences and finding a writing community. Relevant links: Episode 13 (Writing Conferences), Linda Camacho, Tamsen Butler, Rachel Aukes, JournalismJobs.com About the hosts Jason Bougger lives […]
Writing Flash Fiction Makes You A Better Writer
I was going to begin this post with the sentence “I haven’t written much flash fiction,” but I went and counted and see that I’ve published five flash fiction stories, and also have one more scheduled to be published this fall. So actually, nearly one-fourth of my published short stories have been flash fiction. I […]
Five Links Friday 8/18/17
It’s the end of a crazy, emotional, and yet awesome week, as 4yo started preschool, and 6yo started kindergarten. Both kids are still in one piece and neither one of them cried, so thank God for that. (I, however, will have to plead the fifth on the crying part.) So now, onward to Five Links […]
Three things to avoid doing while writing YA
Young Adult is one of the more consistently popular categories of genre fiction right now. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that it does well in every genre, either. And with YA novels seeming to be filling up the shelves of the nearest Barnes and Noble at an alarming rate, you may want […]
Make the Connection or Find a Rejection
There are plenty of things in writing that don’t make sense. For example why is your favorite book not an international best seller? Or why is that book you just hate selling out in bookstores nationwide? Those are questions we might not be able to answer. For some reason, some books, TV shows, or movies, […]
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