Writing is book is hard, but the really difficult stuff comes after it’s finished. After the editing, revising, rewriting, and cleanup, you’ve still got nothing but a book. Your next step is to get the novel to readers, and hopefully make some money doing so. When it comes to publishing, you’ve basically got three options: […]
Five Links Friday 4/24/15
It’s time again for Five Links Friday, although we were dangerously close to making this on the first Five Links Saturday. Let’s have at it. 1. This one is more of a motivational post than a strictly writing related one, but 15 Questions to Ask Yourself Every Friday by Adrian Granzella Larssen at The Daily […]
Five Links Friday 4/17/15
And we’re back with another set of links to share for the weekend. This was a pretty good week over here, as I attended the Nebraska Writers Guild Spring Conference, and then spent the rest of the week going over the galley for the upcoming novel. Anyhow, enough about me. Here are the links! 1. […]
3 Pitfalls of Writing in the First person
How often do you write a story in the first person that feels so real–so natural–that after you finish you are certain that you have completed a near-perfect work of art? If you’re a newer writer, this feeling might be quite common when you first start writing with the first person narrative. It’s pretty enticing […]
Holy Fudgesicles
5/1/15 UPDATE: The book is available now. Click here for ordering information. Regular readers of this blog already know that my wife and I were blessed with the birth of our third child this month. But there is another awesome piece of news that I haven’t yet publicly shared. While out on paternity leave, I […]
Writing a query letter? Check out this free e-book!
Cool! Here’s a free e-book by Noah Lukeman (the author of The First Five Pages: A Writer’s Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection Pile). To me, writing the query letter is just as difficult as writing the novel. Agents and editors are busy. You may have only one or two seconds to grab their […]
Five Links Friday 3/20/15
We’ve reached the end of another busy week. Hope yours was a good one. Here are five writing related links you should click on. 1. Let’s start with a post from Jane Lebak at the QueryTracker blog looking at The Query Process: laughably bad rejections. My favorite: “We just accepted a story with a main […]
3 Things to Include (and 3 Things to Avoid) in a Query Letter
Writing a query letter can be one of the most difficult exercises for a writer to endure. It’s never easy to sum up your full-length novel in a paragraph or two and, if you’re anything like me, you feel like your strength lies in writing, not marketing. But that’s how you have to look at […]
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