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  • Writer Water Cooler

    INDEX TO AGENTS, PUBLISHERS, AND OTHERS – Absolute Write Water Cooler. Excellent listing of all the latest agents & publishers around, and discussions regarding them. Linking this for later. It was linked over on Writer Beware.

  • Pushing Characters and What Makes a Good Story

    Pushing Characters and What Makes a Good Story

    Working Writers posted a link to this article today, and I thought I’d give my two cents on the topic. Rachelle Gardner, Literary Agent: What the Fiction Editor Looks For, Part I Rachelle lists a series of items that writers fail to include in their stories/books/etc. that leaves the reader feeling like something’s off. That’s…

  • Themes in Your Writing

    I was reading over TeacherWriter’s blogpost about themes in writing, and I thought I’d share some themes I’ve seen in mine. Now, they aren’t in everything I write I believe, but they do show up pretty often. Dreams Dreams are a big one. You know how J.K. Rowling considered Hermoine as a character of herself…

  • Leaving Your Safety Net

    Found a very useful post by Kristen Lamb entitled: Go Hard or Go Home – Blogging & Branding. When I started this blog, I knew what I was going to do with it: make it my professional writing blog. And with that in mind I got a blog name that reflected that goal. I’ve spammed…

  • Two heads really *are* better than one

    Found this interesting article over on Savvy Authors. Two completely different writers ended up finding a way to collaborate not just on short stories, but also on complete mystery novels. The fascinating part is that they have a collective pen name, so together they make up a single person. Pretty darn clever, I have to…