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Fact: People love self-help books. They love reading them AND (after they’ve made a breakthrough) they often love writing them. Literary agents love to see self-help books that offer guidance and direction; so do publishers. Books about spirituality, dieting, and...
Whether or not they mow their own lawns, writers need to be landscapers. The landscapes (aka settings or locales) of books, stories, and poems can be just as important as characters, plot, and prose style in making a creative work bloom. We’ve written in the past...
Setting: Enhance your short stories, essays, and novels by using the setting to offset, augment, or reflect the action and mood of your scenes. Works for poetry too!
Sometimes reading can be just as important to a writer as the act of writing itself. Learn how to read like a writer and pick up established writers’ techniques that will help improve your own writing.
If you think the opening pages of your novel are only so-so, read this post. Literary agents want your first five pages to be amazing. Here are some common openings that don’t work in books.
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