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Agent Scott Hoffman On: Making Sense of a Rejection Letter Agents generally respond to submissions with three types of rejections.  Cracking the code when it comes to a typical agent’s rejection...

http://windedwords.blogspot.com/2010/11/7-rules-part-iii-rejection.html Everyone faces rejection. EVERYONE. The trick is learning how to deal with it. I’m going to put myself out there for censure...

How to write when you've got nothing to say I was never prolific. I used to spend hours staring at a blank screen bleeding words like blood from a stone which I would end up deleting the next day....

What’s Your Novel’s Log Line? by Maeve Maddox http://www.dailywritingtips.com/whats-your-novels-log-line/ The term log line (also spelled log-line and logline) is usually associated with movies, but...

Michelle Brower is an agent with Folio Literary. 1. Go to get feedback on your work in a workshop or instructional setting. Sometimes writers forget that the first and most important step in...

http://bubblecow.co.uk/2010/12/a-list-of-book-genres/ was recently browsing in a large bookshop when I can across a section with a sign declaring ‘Dark Fantasy.’ There it was in the cold light of...

1. Writing is a job. Writing is a job not a vocation or an avocation. If you want to be a success at it, treat it like the most important part of your day. Don’t do it when all else is done. Lots of...

By Jason Boog on December 17, 2010 3:55 PM http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1t3SEs/www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/how-timothy-ferriss-hit-the-amazon-bestseller-list_b19441 As of this writing, The 4-Hour...

Free-writing thinking offers women personal space and an outlet for creativity, allowing us to envision “what if” scenarios, and focus on what’s important. Free-writing is a short, timed typed or...

http://www.georgeellalyon.com/where.html Where I'm From I am from clothespins, from Clorox and carbon-tetrachloride. I am from the dirt under the back porch. (Black, glistening, it tasted like...

Does playfulness spur creativity? Ethologist Sir Patrick Bateson of the University of Cambridge wants to know why playfulness is so connected to creativity in the realms of science, music, and...

New Blog post: http://www.themillions.com/2015/08/how-to-title-every-book-you-ever-write.html You’ve decided on a life of letters. You’ve got that manuscript you workshopped getting your MFA, an...

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Please read my latest article on Huffington Post: A Brave Face – Victims Disfigured by Domestic Violence Can Get Life-Changing Help Audrey Mabrey’s ex-husband hit her on the head with a hammer and...