I’m happy I finished writing my novel. I really am. But the end of writing meant the beginning of the next part of the process: querying agents. Querying can be… unpleasant. Oh, the actual searching for agents, fine-tuning emails and sending pages is not so bad. But after that comes the waiting. The staring at […]
Publishing
How To Brand Yourself As A Writer: Guest Post
I’d like to introduce today’s guest poster, Carol Chiao. Carol and I met at the Writer’s Digest Conference last summer and have kept in touch ever since. I’m excited for her to share her marketing expertise with us today. Writers sometimes complain that branding is a mysterious concept. It doesn’t need to be. Brand encapsulates […]
The Write and the Re-Write, Part 2
Continued from Part 1… After receiving much helpful feedback on my novel from agents, I had many questions to consider: Should I keep querying and hope another agent would accept the original manuscript? Or should I do an extensive edit? If I were to edit, how much would I change? Which of the agents’ suggestions […]
The Write and the Re-Write, Part 1
In my very first fiction writing class, my teacher mentioned an author he knew who would write an entire first draft of a novel, then erase it- literally delete it from his computer– and start his re-write from scratch. My fellow students and I were appalled. I couldn’t imagine doing all that work and then […]