WNFIN Challenge/NaNonFiWriMo Day #15 Guest post by Eliza Tutellier (@RecoveryPress) If books and blogs on how to create the perfect book proposal were key to success, I wouldn’t be shaking my head nine times out of ten when opening a query letter. I wouldn’t lose my faith in humanity a little more each day as I read things like…
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WNFIN Challenge/NaNonFiWriMo Day #14 Guest post by Katharine Sands A huge Homeland fan, I recently read an article about how people are recruited as spies. Reviewing the TV depiction of spy-spotting, a CIA agent shared the mnemonic MICE for what they look for and how agency recruiters assess new potential spies to become assets. The mnemonic MICE hits on…
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WNFIN Challenge/NaNonFiWriMo Day #13 Guest post by Gordon Warnock (@GordonWarnock) I attend a lot of writers’ conferences, and inevitably, someone will ask the question: Where do you get most of your clients? They mostly want to confirm their hopes that I end up signing more from conferences than from the slush pile, and my answer usually surprises them: I…
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WNFIN Challenge/NaNonFiWriMo Day #12 Guest post by Philip Gerard One of the best ways I know to explore material you have already discovered and to generate new material is to write a short radio essay—sometimes called a commentary. To me such a piece is more narrative—story—than it is commentary—which is what makes it so exciting. The kind of radio…
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WNFIN Challenge/NaNonFiWriMo Day #11 Guest post by Zachary Petit (@zacharypetit) Before rocketing a tin can full of people into the clouds, pilots do something amazingly simple to reduce the daunting set of complexities before them: They tick off items on a checklist. Sure, writing is less high-stakes than safely transporting the Johnston family from Cleveland to Orlando. But if…
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