January 2010

Read Me, Someone. Anyone.

01.31.2010

I want to land an agent and be published, you want to land an agent and be published.  I scream, you scream, we all scream for representation. Rejection is simply part of the process of being a writer.  It stings, it’s hard to get past.  But what’s the other choice?  Quit?  If that’s an option [...]

Tagged as: agents, stupid synopsis, submitting, writing articles

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HCM Plotting

01.24.2010

Excellent article about how to plot your novel so the reader can’t put it down.  Also, will explain what an “HCM” is. Today’s best novels make readers so desperate to know what happens next that they’ll stay up reading well past midnight, blistering thumbs and all, until THE END. Then and only then will they [...]

Tagged as: process

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The Gift

01.06.2010

Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. ~Rainer Maria Rilke via Writing Quotes, Sayings about Writers, Quotations about Words. Writing makes me crazy.  One minute [...]

Tagged as: personal, the care and feeding of your muse, writing past the fear

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On Writing and Fear

01.01.2010

You need to stand out, and that means swallowing your fear (and your pride) and showing all of you, even the hidden parts. via The Babbling Flow of a Fledgling Scribbler: On Fear and Baring Your Soul.

Tagged as: the care and feeding of your muse, writing past the fear

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