7 Things I’ve Learned So Far, by Emily Hainsworth, Author of THROUGH TO YOU
Updated: 2012-09-30 05:05:24
2. Surround yourself with people who have similar goals. As in many aspects of life, it helps to have friends working toward similar goals. I didn’t know anyone else who even wrote YA when I started out, but I quickly found supportive friends beginning their publication journeys, just like me. Almost every one of the people I met back then now either has an agent or a book deal. You can boost each other up the rungs of the ladder—you don’t need someone at the top to pull you up. Read more
: Lloyd of Gamebooks A blog about writing gamebooks . My musings on how to write a gamebook and what makes a good . gamebook Saturday , September 29, 2012 Should it always be good to be lucky This post is based on a post I made in the official Fighting Fantasy Forum back in February 2010. However , if you are lucky , shouldn't you always get the good' result even if it looks bad I know your aim was probably to avoid the missiles but if fate is smiling upon you then shouldn't you be hit if you pass Even if it looks bad at the time , you will ultimately win so surely its the result you want . Or should being luck rolls not look at the bigger picture' of the book and only show a short term gain Here's an : example At the beginning of Black Vein Prophecy , if you fail a luck roll , you get
NEWS: Literary agent Erin Harris has moved from the Irene Skolnick Literary Agency to Folio Literary Management, where she will focus on growing their literary fiction list, in addition to representing book club fiction, YA, and select narrative nonfiction titles.
HOW TO SUBMIT TO HER: Click through to read an in-depth Q&A about what the move means for her, her submissions, her response time to queries, the categories she seeks, and more. Read more
In the writing community there are countless ways to measure success—completing a first draft, landing an agent, winning a writing competition, etc. So what does it mean to be a successful writer? Tell us and you may get a chance to get published. (Read on for details.) Read more
In only a few weeks, our staff will be venturing west for the Writer’s Digest Conference in Los Angeles, set for Oct. 19-21. On tap this year, writers can expect keynotes by … Read more
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The Renegade Writer About Us Free E-Books E-Courses E-Books Phone Mentoring Query Critiques Free Teleclasses Guest Posting Contact Us Tweet Jump to Comments How a Baseball Bat Can Help You Get Your Money from Delinquent Clients By Jen A . Miller Twice a month , I pull my softball bat from under my bed and put it in a corner of my office . I stare at it . Hard . Then I go through my list of unpaid invoices , figure out which ones are late , and start . swinging The bat becomes the Where’s My Money bat . Sound aggressive It is , but I need mental cue to remind myself that I have every right to ask clients about the status of my checks if they’re late . Think about it this way : If I was 15 days , 30 days , 60 days , 90 days late paying my doctor do you think she’d just sit by and wait until
, home Blog About Forums Nathan Bransford Brooklyn , NY United States Nathan Bransford is the author of Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow Dial , May 2011 Jacob Wonderbar for President of the Universe Dial , April 2012 and Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp Dial , March 2013 He was formerly a literary agent with Curtis Brown Ltd . and is now the social media manager at CNET He lives in Brooklyn . View my Complete Profile Contact Me Blog Directory Directory of All Posts Publishing Essentials How to Write a Novel How to Edit a Novel How the Publishing Process Works What Do Literary Agents Do How to Find a Literary Agent How to Write a Query Letter The Basic Query Letter Formula Examples of Good Queries How to Format Your Query Letter How And Whether to List Your
. WritersDigest.com Skip to content Home Writing Articles By Writing Genre Literary Fiction Young Adult Childrens Science Fiction Fantasy Short Story Essay Articles Freelance Memoir Nonfiction Mystery Thriller Romance Horror Spiritual Humor Poetry Script Writing By Writing Goal Get Published Sell Your Work Complete 1st Chapter Complete 1st Draft Build a Platform Start Blogging How to Improve Writing Skills How to Write an Article Overcoming Writer’s Block Business Legal Matters Promoting Your Work By Writing Level Haven’t Written Anything Yet At Work on First Draft Completed Multiple Manuscripts Published Author Community Forum About StoryFriday Weekly Writing Prompts The WD Community Writing Groups Editor Blogs Guide to Literary Agents The Writer’s Dig There Are No Rules Questions
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The Renegade Writer About Us Free E-Books E-Courses E-Books Phone Mentoring Query Critiques Free Teleclasses Guest Posting Contact Us Tweet Jump to Comments 4 Tips to Recession-Proof Your Writing Business By Kristine Hansen That we are in an economic recession is no secret . News outlets release joblessness reports on a weekly basis . You can probably name half a dozen people in your life struggling to hang onto their homes , remain employed or pay down credit-card debt . While your writing business may be prospering now , how do you know it won’t suffer tomorrow Last year I woke up one morning to an email sent overnight from an editor stating that effective immediately I was no longer blogging for three AOL sites due to a purchase by HuffingtonPost.com . When various airlines merged three
: Lloyd of Gamebooks A blog about writing gamebooks . My musings on how to write a gamebook and what makes a good . gamebook Saturday , September 22, 2012 Five stupid decisions that you can make in a gamebook If you don't get one , it will reflect badly on you . For the April A to Z , I wrote about enemies you may face . However , there are times when you are your own worst enemy in gamebooks . Here are ten of them in no particular order . 1 Not picking up a mirror in Portal of . Evil I lost the count of the number of times you have the opportunity to pick up a mirror or mirror like object in Portal of Evil . When you finally meet Horfack , you realise why it is so important . You also realise that Peter Darvill-Evans is being very helpful . What would you rather face a mindless skill 8
: The Renegade Writer About Us Free E-Books E-Courses E-Books Phone Mentoring Query Critiques Free Teleclasses Guest Posting Contact Us Tweet Jump to Comments Ladies’ Home Journal Essay Contest : You Could Win 3,000 Ladies’ Home Journal just kicked off their second annual Personal Essay Contest . This year’s theme is The Day That Changed My Life , 8221 and LHJ would love to see essays from women writers . And don’t think you need to be a seasoned essay writer to enter : LHJ encourages aspiring writers to apply , and editors read each essay carefully , on the lookout for new . talent Plus , the winner will receive 3000 and the chance to have their essay published in LHJ Want to enter the contest Here are the . rules Good luck If you liked that post , you might also : like Win a Free Spot in
, , The Renegade Writer About Us Free E-Books E-Courses E-Books Phone Mentoring Query Critiques Free Teleclasses Guest Posting Contact Us Tweet Jump to Comments How Fried Eggs Can Help You Write Better Articles , Case Studies , Blog Posts and More In 1996, my husband and I spent six months living and working in Utrecht , The Netherlands . I’m not sure if this is the case now , but back then , the regular TV stations ran soft porn late at . night Wait , I’m actually going somewhere with this One time we ran across a program that featured a couple making out in the kitchen while the woman was making fried eggs . For every transition between scenes , the cameraperson would cut to the fried eggs on the stove , which were becoming increasingly . overcooked The couple is feeling each other up .
As I mentioned in my previous post, I’m making my way through Peter Elbow’s Vernacular Eloquence: What Speech Can Bring to Writing. Elbow’s wants to infuse techniques from speech into writing to improve the quality of writing. I want to infuse elements of speech into video scripts so they sound more like natural speech. The ... more »
One of the first tasks in creating video tutorials involves writing a script. In informal situations, you can simply use an outline or wing it, but corporate settings require higher professional standards. I absolutely hate it when project managers get too involved in the video scripts. I’ve been on projects where the project manager decides ... more »
, home Blog About Forums Nathan Bransford Brooklyn , NY United States Nathan Bransford is the author of Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow Dial , May 2011 Jacob Wonderbar for President of the Universe Dial , April 2012 and Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp Dial , March 2013 He was formerly a literary agent with Curtis Brown Ltd . and is now the social media manager at CNET He lives in Brooklyn . View my Complete Profile Contact Me Blog Directory Directory of All Posts Publishing Essentials How to Write a Novel How to Edit a Novel How the Publishing Process Works What Do Literary Agents Do How to Find a Literary Agent How to Write a Query Letter The Basic Query Letter Formula Examples of Good Queries How to Format Your Query Letter How And Whether to List Your
I’m currently listening to one of the best books I’ve come across in a long time: The Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson. This book is so popular it enjoys a four and a half star rating on Audible from more than 4,600 reviewers and costs 2 credits rather than 1 (even though ... more »
: Lloyd of Gamebooks A blog about writing gamebooks . My musings on how to write a gamebook and what makes a good . gamebook Sunday , September 9, 2012 Computer games Populous II Some settlements . The land is not too flat here , but they have a leader . The big Sun thing is what all the people want to get to . The big house has a small sun over it to show that it's the leader's residence . I first came across Populous II as a demo on an Atari ST Format cover . disc I enjoyed the game because I was allowed to build up huge armies of followers and send them out to annihilate the enemy . As well as doing this , I could also look after my people by manipulating the landscape to make it flat and give them lots of space to build better settlements which were able hold more people more people
, home Blog About Forums Nathan Bransford Brooklyn , NY United States Nathan Bransford is the author of Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow Dial , May 2011 Jacob Wonderbar for President of the Universe Dial , April 2012 and Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp Dial , March 2013 He was formerly a literary agent with Curtis Brown Ltd . and is now the social media manager at CNET He lives in Brooklyn . View my Complete Profile Contact Me Blog Directory Directory of All Posts Publishing Essentials How to Write a Novel How to Edit a Novel How the Publishing Process Works What Do Literary Agents Do How to Find a Literary Agent How to Write a Query Letter The Basic Query Letter Formula Examples of Good Queries How to Format Your Query Letter How And Whether to List Your
Recently a fellow tech writer tweeted the following: Just taught my first #Zumba class! If I were @tomjohnson, I’d find a creative way to tie this to #techcomm. Any good ideas? — Michelle Sander (@techwriterme) August 31, 2012 I realize that I sometimes come across as zealous about technical writing. This is how I’ve branded ... more »
, home Blog About Forums Nathan Bransford Brooklyn , NY United States Nathan Bransford is the author of Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow Dial , May 2011 Jacob Wonderbar for President of the Universe Dial , April 2012 and Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp Dial , March 2013 He was formerly a literary agent with Curtis Brown Ltd . and is now the social media manager at CNET He lives in Brooklyn . View my Complete Profile Contact Me Blog Directory Directory of All Posts Publishing Essentials How to Write a Novel How to Edit a Novel How the Publishing Process Works What Do Literary Agents Do How to Find a Literary Agent How to Write a Query Letter The Basic Query Letter Formula Examples of Good Queries How to Format Your Query Letter How And Whether to List Your