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| Writing Advice: Revamping Your Manuscript Before Submission |
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By Robyn Whyte
What writers really need is their own reality game show where writers have write offs up on the stage.
If you've ever watched Canadian Idol and heard one of the commentators talk about 'tone' or 'voice' or 'modulation' and several of the other singing terms, great. Each specialty has terms and knowledge. In the case of Canadian Idol or American Idol, the singers that have some talent are nurtured right behind the scenes and on stage by professionals. They are allowed to grow with all kinds of guides. With writing though, we don't really have a reality TV show for that and most of the time, it is a solitary profession.
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Posted by User on Tuesday, October 06 @ 01:17:18 EDT (141 reads)
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| Writing Advice: Your Odds of Getting Published |
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By Laura Backes
Most beginning writers are curious about their chances of ever seeing their work in print. Editors have told me that a mid- to large-sized publishing house gets upwards of 5000 unsolicited submissions a year. About 95% are rejected right off the bat (most get form letters, a few promising authors get personalized notes stating why the manuscript was rejected). Of the 5% left, some are queries for which the editors request entire manuscripts. Others are manuscripts submitted in their entirety, and these go on to the next stage of the acquisitions process (get passed around the editorial department, presented at editorial meetings, perhaps looked at by sales staff to get a sense of the market for the book). The end result is that 1-2% of unsolicited submissions are actually purchased for publication.
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Posted by User on Tuesday, October 06 @ 01:14:21 EDT (150 reads)
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| Writing Advice: The Cover Letter made easy! |
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By Liana Metal
You have completed your ms, and now what?
You may ask yourself:
How can I submit it to publishers?
How can I present it?
Here comes the cover letter. It is not difficult to write one, just follow the
instructions below.
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Posted by User on Thursday, October 01 @ 00:13:12 EDT (88 reads)
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| Writing Advice: Playing with Fire |
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Shimmerfall writes "by K.E. Rigley
One of the hottest situations a writer encounters is critiquing another writer's work. It's a common way to get burned. How can such an innocent act cause trouble?
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Posted by User on Wednesday, September 30 @ 23:38:29 EDT (171 reads)
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| Writing Advice: Fiction Writing Tips - What Should You Expect From Writing Your First Novel? |
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By Brandon R. Massey
Here's an important fiction writing tip for you: your first novel will probably be awful. That may seem like a harsh message for me to deliver, but the sooner you accept that I am 99% correct on this, the better off you'll be.
Hey, why are you saying this about my novel? I can hear you saying. You don't know me, Brandon--I've got talent to burn. Just you wait and see, I'm gonna give Stephen King a run for his money.
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Posted by User on Tuesday, September 29 @ 17:57:07 EDT (131 reads)
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| Writing Advice: Attention Struggling Freelance Writers - To Get Published, Do Your Homework |
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By Susan Daffron
Writing is a product. A basic marketing truism is that you can't sell a product if no one wants to buy it. Whether or not your writing is wonderful doesn't matter if you are writing about a subject no one wants to publish. The moral of the story? Never create your writing in a vacuum.
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Posted by User on Tuesday, September 29 @ 17:52:12 EDT (127 reads)
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| Writing Advice: Breaking Through Writer's Block |
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By Marige O'Brien
Writer's block -- that sudden, seemingly inexplicable inability to put words to paper -- can strike any writer at any time. In fact, inexperienced writers suffer from it more often than they realize: they just don't recognise it for what it is. They think the lack of confidence, motivation or experience is based on a far more serious problem. They're half-right. What they don't realize is, that IS writer's block, or at least some of the symptoms of it. But they are right about it being more serious, because writer's block IS serious. Fortunately, it's also curable, too.
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Posted by User on Tuesday, September 29 @ 17:43:15 EDT (84 reads)
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| Writing Advice: Publish Anything: The Saga of a PublishAmerica Author |
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By Lisa Maliga
My story is that of an author who’d done online writing for such dot coms as Themestream, Written By Me, and The Vines. Someone trying hard to have fiction, poetry and nonfiction in print for real, recommended PublishAmerica. She claimed it was a traditional book publisher. I was struck with their slogan, "We treat writers the old fashioned way – we pay them." Wasn’t that what publishers were supposed to do?
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Posted by User on Tuesday, September 29 @ 17:35:29 EDT (103 reads)
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| Writing Advice: Advice on Self-Publishing |
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By Manuela Anne-Marie Pop
A few people emailed me for advice on self-publishing and I decided to write a small guide. There is a huge hype now days with self-publishing and companies are making lots of money from thousands of people who want to see their books in print.
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Posted by User on Sunday, September 27 @ 00:37:21 EDT (124 reads)
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| Writing Advice: Writing a Novel - Point of View and Techniques For Effective Shifts |
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By Robert L. Bacon
The first question some people might ask is why any writer would need to learn techniques related to Point of View. Doesn't POV automatically synchronize with the character's thoughts as soon as these feelings are expressed by the writer? And isn't the POV of a scene easily identified by an attribute or obvious implication? If it were just this easy.
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Posted by User on Saturday, September 26 @ 23:16:26 EDT (154 reads)
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