Starting with the beginning and the ending, and leaving the middle last is a great plotting technique that will save you lots of headaches along the way.
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The need for data availability is increasing and so is the risk of data loss. As a writer you cannot afford to lose your work and you cannot afford to waste time trying to make your work available to you in various places. Let’s talk about what you can do to avoid the common problems related to data availability, data security, and backup.
Short stories are stepping stones toward your larger works. Think of them as small steps that help you develop your writing technique and style, improve your imagination, keep you writing, and improve your writer’s platform. In this post I will discuss why I think it’s important for all authors to write short stories and not focus exclusively on novels.
As a writer you must listen to the pulse of the industry and always be ready to absorb new knowledge. One way is to follow blogs written by established pillars of the writing and publishing community. These are literary agents, editors, publishers, and writers who spend their time sharing their knowledge through their blogs.
A blog can be anything where one or more people share their ideas related or not to a specific topic. It’s like a journal open to the world that allows the visitors or readers to interact with the content by adding their comments, suggestions, and own ideas. Usually the blogger is more than a writer. A writer publishes a book or a story and then only limited interaction exists between the writer and the readers. Bloggers are social creatures. How do you become one?
Clare L. Deming lives in New Jersey and once applied to be an astronaut. She writes both science fiction and fantasy, and her most recent work can be found online in Perihelion SF and the Universe Horribilis anthology from Third Flatiron Publishing. Clare is continuing to work on short fiction and two novels: Starblight (space
Award-winning author Hank Quense lives in Bergenfield, NJ, with his wife, Pat. They have two daughters and five grandchildren. He writes humorous fantasy and sci-fi stories. On occasion, he also writes an article on fiction writing or book marketing but says that writing nonfiction is like work while writing fiction is fun. A member of
Finding a good literary agent is a challenge this days. Agencies are busy, the slush piles are getting larger and larger, and writers are becoming more and more inpatient. This article addresses a few of the issues that come along while searching for a new literary agent, providing a few practical techniques to use. It’s definitely not a complete guide, but it gives you the basic information you need to start looking for your literary agent.
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