Getting Unstuck and Avoiding Writer’s Block
You know that feeling—like you were coasting along on a greased golden road through your first draft (or second…or twelfth), and suddenly you come to [Read More]
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4 Ways to Increase Your Chances of Getting Your Poetry Published
I wrote my first full-length novel when I was 22 and received at least that many rejections before I put it to bed forever. Last [Read More]
Simply Getting Outside is the Most Effective Way to Get Creative
We spend our lives looking at the world through screens: TVs, computers, windows in houses and cars and buses and through these screens it’s like [Read More]
Behind the Scenes of Getting a Young Adult Novel Published
“It’s a good question,” Derek Milman says when asked to define the genre. The basic definition is simple: It’s typically a book with a young [Read More]
Fade to Gray: Getting a book published
For my entire adult life people have paid me to write. Whether it was for this newspaper or something they put on the television the [Read More]
‘As a writer, getting inside the system is really tough’: My Swedish Career
Pettersson realized that there aren’t many opportunities for English-language writers, editors, and agents to meet up in Sweden, where she moved to from Chicago twenty [Read More]