The two books that made me dream of becoming a writer were Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time. So the news I read this morning in a Publishers Weekly email made me squee: a new l’Engle book is coming! It's an adult short story … [Read more...]
365 Great Quotes from Women
Day #4 of writing in earnest, and here is a bit of terrific advice: The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must … [Read more...]
New Novel Contest with Publication for Winner
I thought those of you writing crime fiction might like to know about this email I just got from North American Review: This email is to inform you of North American Review's upcoming contest specifically for mystery/hardboiled/crime noir pieces (submissions in other genres will … [Read more...]
#1ThTH – Reputable Fiction and Novel Contests
This week's 1 Thing Thursday: Consider entering a contest! I finally got traction for my first novel, The Language of Light, when, after it had been turned down by all the major publishers and then stewed in a drawer for an unreasonable number of years, I pulled it out and … [Read more...]
How Many Words Long Should a Novel Be?
This week's 1 Thing Thursday asks the question: How Long should a novel be? As the chart below shows, the range in huge, and the honest answer is: as long as it needs to be. Some of these novels are barely longer than a novella, which tops out at about 40,000 words. But the scope … [Read more...]
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