Perfecting the Query Letter Part 1. For those of you who are looking at getting published the traditional way, you should know that you’ll need to perfect your query letter in order to hook an agent.
Yeah, you’re going to need an agent if you want a big publisher to consider your work. Of course, hooking an agent with the query letter only gets your foot in the door. You’ll still need to deliver with a fantastic, hard-to-put-down manuscript. World Building for Fantasy Novels. Wow.
Another amazing writers workshop. This time the workshop was held in Canberra and it was run by the extremely talented and popular author, Fiona McIntosh. World building for fantasy novels was the focus of this workshop, and my head is still spinning from all the great advice Fiona generously shared. I have pages and pages of notes on this topic now, but here are just a few points Fiona got across about world building: You need to introduce your fantasy world in the first chapter. Okay there was loads and loads more, but you'll have to attend one of Fiona's amazing workshops to learn it all.
And to brush up on my reading I've got The Whisperer on my bookshelf: Plus I've just ordered Royal Exile, the first in the Valisar trilogy - what amazing cover art! Wagging Tales: 10 Best Writing Workbooks. You can get great books on the craft of writing and learn to write a novel at home, but there's so many, how do you pick?
My favourites are the workbooks providing exercises to try yourself. Here are the top ten workbooks for writing that I couldn't do without: You could write your whole novel with this workbook. Now don't be confused, there are two releases under this title. Writing the Breakout Novel is probably a good book too, but I prefer the workbook. At first glance this seems like a run of the mill how-to book on writing. I use some of these exercises in my writing group. Created by an amazing writing centre for young people, this workbook offers lesson plans for high school teachers wanting to offer their students some amazing creative and persuasive writing workshops.
Evans is an amazing speaker, just look for him on YouTube and you'll find many interviews. Overcome Procrastination: Steven Pressfield’s Top 12 Tips. 86, John Barth. This interview with John Barth was conducted in the studios of KUHT in Houston, Texas, for a series entitled The Writer in Society.
The stage set was made up to resemble a writer’s den—the decor including a small globe of the world, bronze Remington-like animal statuary, a stand-up bookshelf with glass shelves on which were placed some potted plants and a haphazard collection of books, a few volumes of the Reader’s Digest condensed novel series among them. Large pots of plants were set about. Barth sat amongst them in a cane chair. He is a tall man with a domed forehead; a pair of very large-rimmed spectacles give him a professorial, owlish look. He is a caricaturist’s delight.
“We’ll have to stick to the channel,” he wrote in his first novel, The Floating Opera, “and let the creeks and coves go by.” This interview, being restricted to a half-hour’s conversation for a television audience, was thought to be a bit short by the usual standards of the magazine. I played drums. Exactly. 5 Ways an Introvert Can Build a Thriving Online Audience. Writing Rules and Fantasy: Show, Don’t Tell. Saturday, November 10, 2012 It’s NaNo month, so it seems like the perfect time for some thoughts on the writing craft, beginning with the most often used of all writing commandments: Show, Don’t Tell.
This is the first in a planned series of articles about common writing rules and how these rules apply to writing fantasy. These are the rules that are repeated over and over in advice forums and on internet writing sites, but when misunderstood or applied too vigorously can be meaningless or even damaging to your writing. I hope that I can shed some light on these rules and show how they apply (and when they don’t) to fantasy writing Show, Don’t Tell If writing rules were a pantheon of gods, ‘Show Don’t Tell’ would be in charge, the Lady of the Great Red Editing Pen hurling lightning-bolts of fiery disapproval down on the heads of writers everywhere. In my opinion, this is one of the most important, but also the most often misunderstood and misinterpreted writing rules.
So what does it mean? 25 Writers You Should Be Following on Twitter. Writer’s Roadmap – Using Excel Keep Your Novel Organized. By Laura Drake We’ve talked about it in other posts.
How learning your writing process is finding your way in a pitch black room, full of furniture. You can learn by barking your shins, but there are less painful ways. Hopefully, this post will help. I’m an organized person, so it would make me crazy trying to locate details in my WIP. I’d end up scrolling through two hundred pages. Using Scrivener and Evernote to Write Your Book. Writer's Guide To Twitter - Inkygirl.com.