An Aussie Christian who enjoys reading, getting out in nature and likes to write.
I’ve always known how important the query letter is, what I didn’t know was the extent in which they are used until I read this interesting post by Jordan Hamessley London (Editor at Egmont USA) over at Pub(lishing) Crawl. According to Jordan, once you sign with an agent your query letter never dies. She says … More Writing Tip Wednesday: Life of a Query Letter.
Hi, Everyone! Welcome to this week’s writerly update. I’ve had such a busy weekend and didn’t get any writing done unfortunately 😦 I hate being busy, I’d rather stay home and write. I did write during the week though 🙂 I’ve rewritten chapter one of the YA contemporary novel I’m working on. The main thing … More A Writerly Update 19.
So how do you write a female character that everyone will love? Easy – you can’t. There will always be someone who will hate your female main character. Your main female character will be judged and harshly, if she is not deemed strong enough there is no hope for her. And this saddens me deeply. … More On Writing Female Characters.
Welcome to this week’s writing update. I haven’t done a huge amount of actual writing this week, I’ve mainly been editing and plotting. On the short story front, I got a draft done of a sci-fi story I’m working on. It’s almost ready to be sent away. I’ll do a few more reads to make … More A Writerly Update 18.
I recently started receiving the Australian Writers’ Centre newsletter. In each issue of the newsletter there is usually two tips on the right way to use words. I have found these very helpful and thought I would share them with you. I think this is something I may incorporate into my Writing Tip Wednesday on … More Writing Tip Wednesday: The Right Word.
Hi Everyone, welcome to my weekly writing wrap-up, where I share how much writing I did during the week. I am sad to report that I didn’t get to write for 4 days this week! 4! If anything, I never usually miss more than one day a week writing, so having 4 days off almost … More A Writerly Update 17.
Originally posted on Aussie Writers:
Today we bring you an interview with the fabulous Aussie agent, Alex Adsett. Alex runs an agency and publishing consultant company in Brisbane, Australia. According to her website; she offers publishing contract advice to authors, publishers and booksellers, and has more recently expanded into the more traditional role of literary…
I am currently working on a series, in fact, a lot of ideas I have for novels are part of a series. Series are very popular things in both the YA world and the sci-fi/fantasy world, my two favourite worlds to write in 🙂 So I was delighted when I came across a post by … More Writing Tip Wednesday: 7 Tips On Writing A Series by Janice Hardy.
Originally posted on Foil & Phaser:
Have you written a novel? Do you like money? This may be for you. From Amazon’s website: The Seventh Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest is right around the corner. You won’t want to miss this opportunity to win a publishing contract with Amazon Publishing. One Grand Prize winner will…
Hi Everyone, I use to do this update every second Wednesday but I have decided to change this to every Sunday and share a weekly wrap up of my writing. And because my writerly update will no longer be on a Wednesday, I will be doing my Writing Tip Wednesday every week instead for fortnightly … More A Writerly Update 16.
Rochelle L. Sharpe 