I definitely don't want to bash education, but I've been a full time, successful journalist without a single qualification in journalism. I...
Why not ring up, and discuss your submission with someone before you send it? Then it's not unsolicited any longer. Make sure you came across as...
I spoke to an agent recently who gets over 2000 unsolicited manuscripts a year. Of those, he picked 12 to represent last year. Do you honestly...
These days, most people deleted anything with an attachment unless they are expecting something. Also, it's much easier to read something on...
Generally I start with my characters in my head, and an idea of all the problems they are going to face, but not how they are going to do it, or...
I think there is a market, and there are quite a few writers doing horror/dark fantasy. Stine is not the only one. One thing I would watch:...
The modern trend is to start the story as soon at the inciting incident, without giving set-up or backstory, or at least, keeping them as short as...
I absolutely believe that what separates the "writers" from everyone else is not some spark of genius, or some special knowledge, it's just...
Way better than waking up in bed, having a normal boring day with lots of backstory monologue , then finally having something exciting happen
I'd be more inclined to go for the telling detail, the greasy/baby fine/receding hair, the teeth with gaps/unnaturally white and even, the mouth...
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