LITERARY REJECTION: YOU’RE NOT ALONE
Here are some quotes from ‘Literary Rejections’: “After 5 years of continual rejection, the writer finally lands a publishing deal:...
YOUR FIRST NOVEL PAGE
The first page of your novel or memoir has to do some very specific things; it can’t just ‘be’ your first page. You are introducing your...
WRITERS’ FEAR
Hey, for those of you who’ve followed me for a while now—I’ve been doing this blog since early 2013—this is my 100th blog post. Kind of...
WRITING AS WORK: REVISING, EDITING, REWRITING
[Before I even begin I’d like to give another shout out to my client, Christian Picciolini. Go buy his important, powerful book,...
NOAH LUKEMAN’S “THE FIRST FIVE PAGES”/SHOWING VERSUS TELLING
“It is the writer’s job to show us what his characters are like, not by what he says about them, or what they say about one another, but...
