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Becoming a Working Writer: The First, Terrible Year in Review

28 September 202022 September 2020Leave a comment

In October 2019, I took the plunge. I made my first short-story submission to a paying market. The rejection came twelve days later. It was a higher tier rejection—the best kind, short of one bearing a personal note from the editor. I felt energized. I was—to steal Mur Lafferty’s phrasing—a working writer.

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15 Holiday Gifts for Your Writer Friends

16 December 201912 December 2019Leave a comment

The holidays are here again. Cue the gift-giving anxiety! I can’t tell you what you should buy for everyone on your list — mea culpa — but I can offer up these 15 holiday gifts for your writer friends. Whether you know an aspiring novelist or someone just nominated for a major award, this guide has a little something for writers of every stripe.

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Damn Fine Story: A Review

13 December 201911 December 2019Leave a comment
Damn Fine Story: Mastering the Tools of a Powerful Narrative

When you’ve been writing for long enough, or once you’ve read enough how-to books for writers, you start to notice just how similar all the “different” advice you’re getting sounds. In Damn Fine Story: Mastering the Tools of a Powerful Narrative, veteran writer Chuck Wendig has crafted an irreverent guide to the one thing every writer should be striving for: how to tell good stories.

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Gideon the Ninth: A Review

25 November 201922 November 2019Leave a comment

Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)“Lesbian necromancers in space.” It’s one hell of a tagline, and it’s exactly what it sounds like. The space-faring fantasy debut from Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth is a tale of intrigue, murder, greasepaint, and … well … Gideon.

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How to Plot Your Novel: 5 Ways to Write Your Bestseller

3 October 20192 October 2019Leave a comment

So you want to write a novel — now what? Well, unless you plan to pull 100,000-plus words from where the sun don’t shine, you’re going to want to do a bit of plotting before you begin. It’s ultimately up to you to decide how to plot your novel, but I’ve picked out five methods you can use to find success as a writer — whatever that means to you.

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