With good dialogue, a character’s words come alive on the page and connect with us. Good dialogue will keep that prospective literary agent turning the pages and the reader wanting more.
Writing is hard work, and no one knows this better than the people who do it faithfully, passionately, relentlessly, day after day. So how do they do it?
Whether you’re writing a snappy cover letter, traditional book proposal, or full-length manuscript to wow a literary agent or publisher, you need to steer clear of the biggest mistakes writers make in crafting their prose.
Writers come to workshops for a variety of reasons – support, alliance with other writers, to grouse about the business of publishing, and for critique. Is a workshop right for you?
Writing and publishing are more than just words on paper or in electronic files. Books often involve legal questions, marketing plans, and social media networking.
In every memoir and personal essay class I teach, one anxiety-arousing subject always comes up: How can I be sure this is true? Students ask the question. The question calls for conversation, and I usually begin that conversation with a larger question: Why are you writing a memoir?
These days, with so many options for writers to self-publish and when even established publishing houses are suffering cutbacks in editorial staff, it’s more important than ever to make sure you have the editorial backup to bring your book up to professional standards.
You can’t very well write about your life without writing about the people in your life.
In the last decade, the Internet has exploded with content, making research much easier and faster for writers. I find myself online every day searching
Everyone loves a good story. We all know one when we read one. But what makes a good story?
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