My New Hero

 

By Whiney Writer

 

Remember how I told you last time I’d sent out 127 email queries to editors and agents and I hadn’t heard anything from any of them? Well, I have a big update! I have 127 new gray hairs since last month. I counted them in between hitting “refresh” on [...]

Flash Feedback

by Christine Liu Perkins

Some workshops and retreats (such as the upcoming “Big Sur in the Rockies”) offer a fifteen-to-thirty minute opportunity to receive feedback on a work-in-progress from a small critique group. Can you really receive anything useful in such a short time period from a few strangers who have never seen your [...]

Whiney’s First Writers Convention — and why you should go to them too!

by Hilari Bell

As followers of this blog know, Whiney went to her first writers convention (and blogged about it — check the archives) back in April. I’m really glad she had such a great time. (Though maybe we should explain to her about pitching.) But reading her post got me thinking about going to [...]