Nobody is making you do this: you chose it, so don't whine." Other people can help you a bit, but essentially you're on your own. This latter means: there's no free lunch. “You most likely need a thesaurus, a rudimentary grammar book, and a grip on reality. Articles from Poets & Writers (on poetry, literature, writing, and the arts).And yet Star Wars, Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, David and Goliath, and countless other stories are all different and beloved.At the same time, especially when dealing with very familiar arcs, there’s a very fine line between archetype and cliché." Clichés (literary agent Nathan Bransford, 3-2-10) "There are many, many stories involving a young man, often of unknown/mysterious parentage, who suddenly realizes he’s the chosen one and has to embark on a quest against impossible odds to save his people. Titled 'How Books Get Finished: Editor And Agent Talk About Revision. Listen to Alexandra Shelley (editor of Kathryn Stockett's "The Help") and literary agent Eleanor Jackson discussing revision, publishing, and how to know when a book is 'finished' (on She Writes Radio). An Editor (Who Helped 'The Help') and an Agent Talk About Revision.Today I’m thrilled if I can produce a book that holds together and doesn’t make me cringe and maybe leaves some readers moved or delighted." I understand how hard it is simply to create a narrative arc, to surprise readers, to write dialogue that sounds real. "Today I bow before mid-list novelists, genre novelists, self-published novelists-writers that my younger, snobbier self would have discounted. Am I Too Old for This? (Ilana Debare, Electric Lit, 7-20-23) A 65-year-old debut novelist examines the publishing world's obsession with youth.American Masters Series: The American Novel (PBS archives, from James Baldwin to Gore Vidal).AltX Online Network ("Where the Digerati meet the Literati"-cutting-edge fiction, criticism, and hypertext).Alone, With Words (Jed Perl, New Republic, 6-9-10) Why writers can’t live to please their readers."All my stories have been written with material that was gathered-no, God save us! Not gathered but absorbed-before I was fifteen years old." ~ Willa Cather.About Literary Magazines and Presses (Community of Literary Magazines and Presses, CLMP) "Who we are and what we believe.".More advice, sites, and resources for fiction writers (alphabetical by title and occasionally topic, with an occasional 'hot new item' up front) Beta readers (under Agents and book proposals).The novelist will tell you what it felt like." ~E.L. The historian will tell you what happened. "Everybody knows what a story is until they sit down to write one." ~ Flannery O'Connor " Fiction is life with the dull bits left out." ~ Clive James See also Fiction ghostwriting and ghostwritersĭeveloping a writing practice (The writing life) Books about editing and revising fiction.Books for fiction writers and editors (on another page of this website).Online communities for fiction writers.Organizations and sites for fiction writers and fans.Openings and closings (ledes and endings). Plots, story structure, narrative arc, conflict, and suspense.Science fiction and fantasy and speculative fiction.The difference between mysteries, suspense novels, and thrillers.Mysteries, suspense, thrillers, crime novels, and cozies.Genre fiction and fiction genres and subgenres.Paris Review interviews with fiction writers.Interviews with novelists and fiction writers.Blogs, websites, and online mags for literary fiction.Assembling or appearing in an anthology.NaNoWritMo (National Novel Writing Month).Pitch Wars (fiction critiquing and mentoring contests).Should you hire a professional editor?.Life rights: Do you own your life story?. How, why, and when to use beta readers (under Agents and book proposals)
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