I've been involved in a dozen or more face-to-face poetry groups over the years and enjoy them much more than web-based poetry forums. Why?...
Yeah, I like the earn versus learn comment. The only time I "earned" anything from my poetry was a contest many years ago in which first prize was...
Your results are disappointing, Set2Stun. Mine too, and yes, silence sucks. More than five years now with a hundred or more queries and 99%...
Thanks for the reply, Woody. Can't understand why word count has anything to do with being a debut author. Since she evaluated quantity instead of...
That brings up an interesting point regarding the word range of novels that agents are likely to accept or reject. I've been shooting for at least...
In the life of every problem there is a time when it's big enough to see but still small enough to fix. Like most writers, one of my problems is...
My recent attempts to write a synopsis has given me another tool for writing a story. I'll still begin with what I call free writing (pantsing)...
I've had several queries "in progress" but most of them have been submitted to agents who say they will not respond if they are not interested....
You'll find lots of help here. I sure have. And I applaud your goal regarding fiction versus the non-fiction of real life. To quote my own view......
Yeah, most submission guidelines explain how busy the agent is. But how long would it take to provide feedback? Regarding the elements of a story...
It's a problem for me too. Most of the advice I've found on the web and in forums like this one is that you should begin your story with several...
I'm here too but busy as a nine-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs struggling to finish my novels so I can find an agent.
Can't remember where I read it, but the gist of it went something like... "Anyone can write a 50,000-word story. Some can write a 5,000-word...
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