Non Fiction and Fiction Publishing, Writing

Janet Reid, Literary Agent--Querying Non Fiction

Larry Brooks -storyfix.com- Get Published, Part 6 – Avoiding the Common Pitfalls

Seekerville: Conflict In Every Line

Sylvia Dickey Smith Books Wordpress Blog

I’m a Storycatcher
I make no bones about it. I catch stories. I will always take the time to listen to a story someone wants to tell.

The Effective Use of Subplots

Read more at SUITE 101

Developing a Variety of Stories to Greaten Your Story
© Arthur Gulumian

Nov 22, 2009

By applying subplots along with the main story, you will effectively engage the reader in a tangible world where people can better relate to the characters or events.


Happy Writing!

Rachelle Gardner's Blog

Rants and Ramblings

On Life as a Literary Agent


Foreshadowing vs. Telegraphing
Today I thought I'd talk about an aspect of novel-crafting that I don't see addressed very often, even though I deal with it all the time when editing novels. It's the technique of foreshadowing and its black-sheep cousin, telegraphing.

Alexandra Sokoloff's blog

"The Dark Salon" has two articles, for the aspiring author of interest.

What is high concept?

What's your premise?

Happy Writing!

Getting in the Groove!!!!

There is a lot going on this week. First off, let’s take a look at Ravenne’s Blog The Raven’s Eye she is working on a project that she’s calling TAP.

TAP, from her description is a venture in to organizing your research, character exploration, plot lines, subplots, etc… of a first draft and making it a finished novel.

If you are interested, Ravenne invites anyone to join her. Don’t have the book? Check out this link for the worksheets you’ll need.“From First Draft to Finished Novel” by Karen S. Wiesner.

Karen Wiesner also has another book“First Draft in 30 Days.” If you want to start there fine.

Onto the next topic, which is incorporating imagery in your fiction? Sweet Hearts of the Rodeo’s co-leader Carol Malley has provided the group with several links on the subject that I would like to share with you.

Incorporating imagery in your fiction writing by Jennifer Roach

Ms. Roach says in her article, imagery is a very important aspect of fiction writing, one that many beginning writers tend to forgo in favor of heightened dialogue or plot. Imagery is sometimes viewed negatively due to its instant connotation to Shakespearean sonnets or classic novels. Let me assure you that imagery is still very much an essential component to any fiction writing. You just have to know how to use it.

Jennifer is a fiction writer, blogger, and freelance editor/proofreader. You can follow her on Twitter@jennifermroach or on MySpace .

How to critique fiction without crushing the author’s spirit.


Click on Jennifer’s name or the link above to read other articles by her.

Other good articles on the subject of imagery and symbolism can be found here:

“Weaving Symbolism and Imagery into Your Story” by Elsa Neal

“How to Use Imagery in Fiction” by Cynthia Scott


Fiction is about taking the reader and transporting them to the world where your character lives. The only way to get there, is through imagery.
Happy Writing!

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Blog Party

I just got back from a blog party over at Rachelle Gardner’s blog Rant & Ramblings , it was an open discussion, where one was free to say whatever one wanted to say, too where virtual drinks and food (sweets) flowed freely.

Pounds by the hour, you might say I gained, virtual or not, anyhoo Rachelle invited many mentors/consultants and listed their expertise as well as website, blog for your convenience.

One site that caught my attention more so than the others was Rebecca LuElla’s blog Rewrite, Reword, Rework ,she is a professional editor, as well as offering a page on self-editing tips.
Hope this helps.
Happy Writing!

Topics of Interest.

Just incase you don’t follow all the links on this blog, I want to share with the readers several articles that I came upon this morning, topics that I thought would be of interest to the beginning writer, and the not so beginning.

To begin with is Rachelle Gardner--Literary Agent and her article on,

"Why it's hard to Tell the Whole Truth."

You often wonder, why you don’t receive a comment back on your work and she explains in her article why she doesn’t always resond, Rachelle says, “The first and most important reason is because I could be wrong.” I couldn’t imagine an agent ever being wrong, but read her article, she’s straight forward and honest. She gives some wonderful advice and several interesting links.

Rejection Without a Reason
Frustrated With Your Rejections?

Another good topic I came upon titled, “The Three-Act Structure
by Kathleen Bolton” of Writer Unboxed she gives a in-depth explanation of plot, in a three act structure form. She list several links to outlines by Peder Hill on Structure and Plot, as well as Holly Lisle tips.

Three Act Structure

Learn the Elements of a Novel

Holly Lisle

Happy Writing!

Peddling Backwards when I should be peddling forwards!

The New Year is in the third day and I feel like I’m peddling backwards instead of forwards, cleaning up task that should have been completed days ago… in the old year.

Updates…the homeless mom and the sixteen year seem to have a new beginning to look forward too with all the well-wishers keeping in touch and giving a helping hand. Thank God.

Blinky’s page is updated with answers to questions that has been poised and I must say she has done an excellent job answering questions that people cannot truly know the answers too, unless they walk a mile in someone else’s shoes. Life is never easy, nor does it come any easier as we grow older and the aches and pains flood the body making it more difficult to do the task we did when we were younger.

Sweet Hearts of the Rodeo: Boy those ladies have certainly done a marvelous job reviewing Butler’s session 3 and 4 ( I’m behind and I hope they will forgive me for not responding yet to their analysis, I hope to get to it by the end of Sunday) and giving well constructed thoughts on his writing process.

Onto another subject and thought regarding the group, three ladies out of the group has had stories published in this year’s T-Zero Quarterly, a writers village online magazine Link: http://writersvillage.com/t-zero/. And I’m not sure if it is open to the public? But Writer’s Village University offers over 200 courses for the aspiring author. The Ladies, whose short story was published, are:

The Beaded Sandals
short fiction by Carolann Neilon Malley

Trying To Beat The Moon
short fiction by Kathy Kubik

The Pond
short fiction by Laurel Wilczek

And Kathy has a poem published also,

Diagnosis
a poem by Kathy Kubik

All are extremely talented writers-- way to go ladies; I’m looking forward to seeing your name in print, again.

I’ve far to many irons in the fire, but there seems to be so little time to accomplish all that needs to be done in a day.

Twitter: is fascinating and I’m learning the method of tweeting as I build followers. And you meet so many interesting people to name a few there are, publishers, writers, journalist, webmaster, bloggers the list is endless, as an aspiring author a definite place to be.

Facebook: Like Twitter, FaceBook is another place to increase your network and meet interesting people.

Onward and upward, writing, blogging and keeping up with the task I have set myself to…
Happy Writing!