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Adventurers Wanted for NaNoWriMo Writing Challenge

By |2023-11-01T13:27:31-04:00November 7th, 2023|Categories: Non-Fiction|Tags: , , , |

Are you a dragon slayer? If you are reading this, there’s a good chance that the answer is – yes. People who write novels, or aspire to, are, if nothing else, adventurers. They are mixed in with the same brave souls who run marathons, climb mountains, sail blindly across strange oceans, and slay dragons. National

Writer’s Block, or Overcoming the Writerly Urge to Not Write

By |2023-06-30T09:34:26-04:00June 27th, 2023|Categories: Non-Fiction|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

You’ve either read the American author William Goldman, or you’ve watched a film adaptation of one of his novels. I’d put money on it. He wrote a slew of cult classics that covered wide swaths of literary territory – from the tongue-in-cheek fairy tale adventure of The Princess Bride to the Nazi-driven conspiracy thriller Marathon

Eddy Says: We Caught You Doing Something Right!

By |2023-07-15T15:30:02-04:00June 20th, 2023|Categories: Non-Fiction|Tags: , , , , |

Encouragement from the Desk of Eddy For your motivation, below are a few positive notes Eddy, as an acquisitions editor, has made re: submissions she has received over the last few years. The bold type words concern the major elements most editors pay attention to (if the narrative is intriguing). I really like the voice

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