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 […]
Don’t Play The Blame Game
High school was twenty years ago, but I still look back with a bit of embarrassment when it comes to some of the attitudes I held back then. I was the undisputed king of Blame Town. Didn’t make varsity in football? The coach hated me. Didn’t get an A on my paper? The teacher hated […]
Face your (writing) fears
When I first started tinkering around with writing fiction so many years ago, I went out and read several magazines and browsed through a bunch of books on writing. I didn’t set out to find anything specific; just some basic knowledge to arm myself with as I got started. The one piece of advice that […]
1 in 20,000 (but 1 is all it takes)
I was looking over some past tweets of one of the literary agents I follow on Twitter and she mentioned that she’s received over 20,000 queries so far this year. 20,000. And it’s only July. So once I read that, a whole group of thoughts and emotions popped into my head. The first was: “Holy […]
Five Links Friday 7/7/17
Hey, it’s Friday! And, dang, I nearly missed it. Here are five links for ya’ll. 1. Let’s start with a look at irony from Reedsy.com in a great, informative post, with lot’s of examples: Learn What Irony (Really) Is and How To Use It. 2. Get that first draft written! Here is Victoria Griffin with […]
The most important thing
I was talking about Stephen King’s Dark Tower series the other day and what I liked and disliked about it. (Okay, it was mostly what I disliked, but still…) Like a lot of King’s novels, the books in the Dark Tower series are often way too long, too slow, and full of too many pointless […]
Get to know your genre before it’s too late
I don’t often go outside the typical genres of fantasy, soft science, and horror, with a few notable exceptions for humor and my novel, which happened to be YA. But I decided to take my chances and try writing in a genre of which I know very little: crime. I guess I shouldn’t say I […]
Podcast Episode 38 – What to Avoid in a Query
In this episode of The Write Good Books Podcast, Jason and Scott look at a few of the things agents and editors do not want to see in your query letter and synopsis. Relevant links: QueryTracker.net, Writer’s Digest, Holy Fudgesicles Click the link below to stream the episode. Also available at iTunes, Soundcloud, RSS and […]
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