I have just added a new page to this blog, Open Submissions, this is where I’ll be posting places you can submit your stories to that I have heard about. They will mainly be for short story comps, anthologies and magazines. So far I have posted about 2 opportunities that are available: 1) The Carmel … More I just added a new page: Open Submissions
Yesterday I finished the seventh draft of my manuscript. Today I sent it to the Ampersand Project (Hardie Grant Australia.), cutting it close with the submission window open for only two more days. I also had to send the dreaded one page synopsis. It’s hard to condense a 118,000 word manuscript down to a one … More Submitted.
Welcome to this weeks Writing Tip Wednesday. Today I am looking at what publishers and editors want. I think it is fairly easy to find out what publishers and editors want, thanks to the internet, and it is important to find out what they want if you want to succeed. If you are like me, … More Writing Tip Wednesday: What Publishers/Editors Want.
I am up to the editing stage of my novel, and soon I’ll be ready to submit, so I thought this week’s writing tip I’d focus on these two things. The perfect post ended up in my reader today on editing, so I thought I’d share the link. It is from Rebecca Berto’s blog and … More Writing Tip Wednesday: Editing and Submitting.
Usually for my Writing Tip Wednesday I bring you writing tips from authors that have been published, but this post I had my own little writing tip that I wanted to share, a lesson that I have learnt. And here it is: Be patient. This is something I have to tell myself, and something I’m … More Writing Tip Wednesday: Patience.
I am always looking for advice from authors as I try to become a published author myself. I think almost ever writer (whether they admit it or not) dreams that they’ll have their book published by a big company, offered a huge advance and become an over night best seller. The more you read other … More Eye opening advice for writers.
If you ask an author for some advice on writing, they are undoubtably going to tell you to read, read and read. Read widely and often. This is one of the first things they will tell you, and since basically all of them tell you to do it, it is advice worth following. How can you write … More To read or to write? That is the question.
Today I was reading a post from Julie Israel, which you can read at http://julieisrael.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/the-door/ that inspired a short story of my own. An image came to me that I had to write down. The words started to flow and I just went with it, not planning length or any plot. I was doing a … More I feel like I’ve run a marathon.
I was writing a short story, going along fine, and then I write the word ‘agreeance,’ sure enough, a wiggly red line appears underneath, which puzzled me because I was sure I had spelt it right. So I go on the net to investigate. Turns out I had spelt it right, it just technically isn’t … More A WORD ON WORDS.
Rejection is a part of being a writer. Lots of writers got rejected many times before they got picked up. Becca Fitzpatrick took 5 years to sell her YA angel book Hush Hush, Wither by Lauren Destefano was rejected 120 times before it was picked up, and even Stephen King was rejected. (His book ‘On … More A word on rejection.
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