I dont think i've heard it (plagiarism) ever happening with a forum or online writer's exchange. Anyone know of a case?
Rejection letters are like a rite of passage for writers. No good writer i know of got represented by the first agent he mailed or the first...
I'm not saying that an experienced writer absolutely needs an agent, but first timers? Oh yeah. We all think we're pretty smart on the first go...
Yeah, pretty much like everyone else said, getting an agent is the first step on the road towards publication. you could get get published without...
Bella from Twilight Eragon from the Inheritance Cycle For some reason i can't think of anybody annoying outside the YA market...
What i would do, if you had the time and motivation, is to consider if the story could be expanded into a full sized novel. It is a lot of work,...
Most novels go beyond the 100000 word count, and then there are the door stoppers like that go beyond 250000 words. Most of these "epics", the...
New and interesting ideas are always more appealing to publishing houses, instead of the same old tired "dark lord takes over the world" thing....
A good strategy to fight writer's block -for me at any rate- is to spend some time doing nothing. Call it meditation or what you will, but it's...
the simplest way to break the mold, in my opinion, is to deconstruct a genre's main selling points. Two examples: First you have Lord of the...
Well to be fair, Percy Jackson and Eragon are YA novels. How many recent YA novels can hold their own (no matter their authors' skill) against...
The thing is, good writing will not salvage a horrible plot. The same is true vice versa. All successful writers, and I do mean all, write both...
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