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New WITS Feature: First Page Critique

Laura Drake — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 12:02:12 +0000

I'm trying a new series here on WITS, where I'll crit a submitted first page. More on how to get your work considered below. In the meantime, let's jump right in! I believe we learn best, by example. The following is from a brave WITS follower who agreed to go first ~ Dilly dilly to […]

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The Art of the Chapter

Guest Blogger — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 11:02:06 +0000

Greer Macallister A few years ago, if you’d asked me about the building blocks of great novels, I would have yammered on endlessly about sentences. They can’t be too long or too short or all the same; they can’t be so complex or descriptive that they get in the way of the story; they are […]

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3 Reasons Your Manuscript Gets Rejected by Agents

Guest Blogger — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 11:01:45 +0000

Sierra Godfrey I am a reader. Yes, I read books, but I mean an agent’s reader. I read requested manuscripts. I read your requested manuscript. Readers are one of the secrets of the industry—most agents utilize them as there are simply too many manuscripts and not enough pairs of eyes. Some agents use one or […]

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How Actions Determine Character and Arc

Guest Blogger — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 11:01:24 +0000

Les Edgerton The writer who can master the art and craft of defining their characters by their actions is going to be the author whose work gets read. By lots and lots of folks… Enough, hopefully, that you’ll never again have to say to someone about the novel you’ve written that it’s “only available in […]

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5 Steps for Surviving a Revise and Resubmit

Orly Konig-Lopez — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 09:00:40 +0000

By Orly Konig-Lopez Querying authors know the feeling: Your email pings with an incoming message. It's from one of the agents who requested your manuscript. Your heart beats in your ears, you close one eye, tilt your head to a 35 degree angle and squint at the words. Maybe this is "the one." "Thank you […]

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The Long, Winding Road

Laura Drake — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 07:58:19 +0000

By Laura Drake After fourteen years of trying, I signed with an agent this month! That’s a lot of years to keep at something. But during down times along the way I've thought back to the first spark of the story, to get the inspiration to keep going. Before I learned to ride my own, I rode pillion […]

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