Archive for the 'Resources' Category
Macmillan New Writing
Macmillan New Writing is a part of Pan Macmillan Publishers, a mainstream publisher. If you read the page I’ve linked to, you’ll discover that they now accept unsolicitored manuscripts. The contract will be different to what an agent would be able to negotiate for you, but I feel this is a way for […]
Posted by: Scribe on Monday, 23 Jun 2008
Designing A Cover For Your Book- A guide for self publishers
by Anthony P. Palmieri
In these days of computers, the internet, digital cameras, and on-line publishing companies, individuals can more easily express their creativity through writing and publishing their own written works. Whether it is a novel, a short story, or a how to guide, having a creative cover is important to help capture the attention […]
Posted by: Scribe on Friday, 20 Jun 2008
Three Easy Ways to Motivate Yourself to Write
by Will Kalif
Writing is a wonderful, yet sometimes, very hard thing to do. Often it is very easy to not “make the time” to write and nobody is going to motivate you. You have to motivate yourself. Here are three techniques that will get you writing.
Technique 1: Modify Your Internal Dialogue
The biggest reason why a […]
Posted by: Scribe on Wednesday, 17 Oct 2007
The “RL Technique” J.K. Rowling Uses To Hook Her Readers
by Jared Myers
The “RL Technique” J K Rowling uses to grab readers by the eyeballs and forces them to re-read her books again and again.
I’ll show you how it practically gives away all her best kept secrets and how you can use it to keep your own readers hanging on your every word.
You’ve probably heard […]
Posted by: Scribe on Tuesday, 18 Sep 2007
Making Magic Real in your Fantasy Writing
By Will Kalif
Magic is a wonderful aspect of Fantasy. It can add whole new dimensions to the world you are creating by bringing new dilemmas and new problems and challenges. It can also bring a fair amount of spicy and interesting conflicts. But magic is not a panacea. It should not be used to easily […]
Posted by: Scribe on Friday, 7 Sep 2007
Finding the REAL Problem
Last week I wrote about My Writing Future and a few days later I gave a Dilemma Update, and now I’m going to write about finding out what the real problem was.
For as long as I can remember I have always NOT enjoyed writing conflict/battle scenes. I tend to skip over the top of […]
Posted by: Scribe on Thursday, 6 Sep 2007
Being Invisible
Excerpt from The Business of Writing for Children: An Award-Winning Author’s Tips on Writing Children’s Books and Publishing Them, or How to Write, Publish, and Promote a Book for Kids by Aaron Shepard.
All at once, in the middle of the story, I “woke up” with a shock. For just a few seconds, I had […]
Posted by: Scribe on Wednesday, 20 Sep 2006
Flow Like a Mountain Stream
I saw the following words and thought I’d write a post on them.
A writer wants the words to flow like a mountain stream, …
by Steven O’Dell
This is so true, but how many writers have this happen? I mean, be honest, it rarely does.
It’s likely that many of us will have spurts of […]
Posted by: Scribe on Thursday, 7 Sep 2006
Burn It, Bury It, Let It Live
Sometimes, especially when we first start writing, we reach a point where we no longer like or want to work on the story at hand. Usually as we grow as a writer, we can see the errors we’ve previously made and that “spoils” the story altogether.
It’s possible that we might rewrite the manuscript entirely, […]
Posted by: Scribe on Wednesday, 6 Sep 2006
Duotrope’s Digest
Duotrope’s Digest looks like a good resource.
Welcome to Duotrope’s Digest, a database of over 1175 current markets for short fiction and poetry. Use this page to search for fiction markets that may make a fine home for that short story or poem you just finished. Use the menus at the top and right to […]
Posted by: Scribe on Sunday, 30 Jul 2006