May - 2015

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...

MEMOIR VS AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Common Misconceptions about Writing: Things We’ve been Told that Aren’t Necessarily [Always] True about The Craft

Video-Recorded Conversation Between Me and James F. Richardson, PhD, on The Merits or Lack Thereof of "Individualism"

The Making of a Book: My Debut Punk Literary Novel

What is the Point of Substack? Making Money? Quality? Community? A Substack Writer’s Thoughts on the Game

Writers Versus The World: How Writers are Different from Everyone Else

The Problem with Claudine Gay: Harvard as Test Case for Racism

How Book Editing Works: A Guide for Writers and Anyone Interested in Editing

Copy of David Corbett’s “The Art of Character”: The 5 Cornerstones of Characterization

Copy of GETTING YOUR BOOK TO AN AGENT

THE WRITER/EDITOR RELATIONSHIP: PATIENCE

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MICHAEL MOHR BOOK EDITOR & PROFESSIONAL WRITER