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How to Improve Writing Skills
You have the drive, you have the passion, and you’re more than willing to put in the time it takes to finish a manuscript. But you also want to make sure your work is clean, compelling, and perfectly structured. Help for doing just that can be found right here.
3-Part Recipe for PERFECT Agent Queries
Dish up good representation for your book by adding three key ingredients to that next query letter. Read more
Tips for Priming the Writing Pump
Having trouble getting started with a piece of writing? Listen to the pump-priming ideas of some of today’s hottest writers, as told to Anne Collette. Read more
The Secret of Good Writing
For National Book Award winner Alice McDermott Read more
The 10 Commandments of Fiction Writing
Guide your writing ways with these 10 rules thou must not break.
by Raymond Obstfeld
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Show and Tell
To show or to tell isn’t a battle of good versus evil, but the skilled storyteller knows how to play each to maximum effect. Read more
What Christine Byl can’t not do
Is writing something you can’t NOT do? If so, you’re on the right track, as the case of writer Christine Byl Read more
