By Terri Benson Who’s Shirley? But seriously, folks (OK, not really seriously, but kinda), have you ever suffered from Writer’s Block? I hear about it all the time, but I think I’m immune. Even if I wrote 20 hours a day, 7 days a week, I don’t think I could empty out the ideas and…
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When It’s Time to Part With Your Agent … by Chuck Greaves
Signing with a literary agent is an early career milestone for many authors. Finding the right agent is, I submit, essential to an author’s long-term success and happiness. Having chosen both badly and well in my brief writing career, I thought I’d share both experiences, as a kind of authorial teaching moment. When I finished…
Interview with Jessica Renheim, Associate Editor of Dutton/Penguin Group
Interview originally published at Chiseled in Rock blog by Dave Jackson on June 4, 2014. Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers is pleased to welcome Jessica Renheim to the Colorado Gold Conference September 5th through the 7th. Jess joined Dutton in 2007 and has been there ever since. She edits both fiction and nonfiction at Dutton, including…
The Top 5 Best Pieces of Writing Advice I Ever Got … by Trai Cartwright
Last Thursday, a friend and I both had one of those explosive days you live for as a writer: the day when your story just electrifies you, delights you, reveals itself to you. She told me she had just written the scene that told her it was just another 25 pages until the supernatural elements of her book could be introduced. I’d just written a scene that was wholly unexpected: a dude who wasn’t supposed to reveal his true nature for many (many) pages to come suddenly whipped off his mask.
The Nature vs. Nurture Clash (aka Plotters vs. Pantsers) … by Jim Heskett
All across the internets, published and unpublished writers blog about how to write, edit, and market your materials. I find many commonalities and universal truths… show don’t tell, don’t be afraid to be bad in first draft, don’t join a critique group that meets on Wednesdays, etc. I might have misheard that last one, but I think you get my point.
If you spend enough time researching writing advice, one Nature vs. Nurture clash always recurs: Plotters vs. Pantsers.