The best way is to literally just throw yourself back into writing. Whether it's another short story, or the first few chapters for a novel......
I do agree that pushing words into your novel so it fits into a bracket might not be a good thing.. I understand that agents/publishers look for a...
I can relate to this. There have been times when I've worked on something (be it a short story or novel etc) and I re-write it, check it for...
I have been writing poems and short stories since I was a child, but I suppose if I had to pick one piece of writing that I felt was my first...
I do agree that YA fiction is a very successful and booming market right now - but you have to ask yourself is this truly where my book lies? Was...
How a person writes is really such an individual thing - what works well for one person might be an awful prospect to another. There is no right...
I just want to say that just because you have had trouble finding an agent, it doesn't neccessarily mean you need to go down the self-publishing...
I remember the first story I wrote, it was a horror story called Caged Demon about a prisoner who escapes his cell and falls in love with a...
I just want to jump in here and say I love Stephen King's Bag of Bones. It's absolutely one of my favourite books! As for reading making you a...
It's interesting, I wonder how I'd find the experience of putting a time-limit on my own writing. At the moment, when I write, I just follow my...
I have a kindle and I really like it, but I have to admit I prefer paperbacks. For me, personally, I can't beat the feel and smell of a book in my...
Author Kathryn Meyer Griffith has been writing for over 39 years, and she has published 14 books plus 7 short novels. She wrote a piece for my...
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