tips Archives - Women Writers, Women's Books http://booksbywomen.org/tag/tips/ Wed, 07 Feb 2018 07:30:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Possessed By The Word http://booksbywomen.org/possessed-by-the-word-by-kris-radish/ http://booksbywomen.org/possessed-by-the-word-by-kris-radish/#comments Wed, 07 Feb 2018 09:45:34 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=21828 If anyone tells you it’s easy to sit down and write a novel feel free to start laughing and call him or her a big fat liar. Inspiration might be easy, finding great story lines might be easy, thinking up fifteen ways to end each chapter might be easy, but writing the whole damn thing […]

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]]> http://booksbywomen.org/possessed-by-the-word-by-kris-radish/feed/ 1 21828 Writing The Dreaded Synopsis http://booksbywomen.org/writing-the-dreaded-synopsis-by-susan-elliot-wright/ http://booksbywomen.org/writing-the-dreaded-synopsis-by-susan-elliot-wright/#respond Thu, 09 Mar 2017 06:00:21 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=18311 Some authors say that writing a whole novel is easier than writing a synopsis. I’m not sure I’d go that far, but I agree it sure as hell ain’t easy! Why is it so hard? There are a number of factors, I think. First, it seems so unfair that, having spent months or even years […]

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]]> http://booksbywomen.org/writing-the-dreaded-synopsis-by-susan-elliot-wright/feed/ 0 18311 Never Jump From A Moving Novel http://booksbywomen.org/never-jump-from-a-moving-novel/ http://booksbywomen.org/never-jump-from-a-moving-novel/#comments Fri, 17 Jun 2016 10:48:31 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=15737 Novel writing is a journey. We authors are the advance team who scout locations before the readers make an appearance. But we’re travelers first and foremost – into foreign lands, if we’ve the nerve to leave the familiar landscape of memoir. When I began writing, agents and editors cautioned that the craft had strict rules. […]

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]]> http://booksbywomen.org/never-jump-from-a-moving-novel/feed/ 1 15737 Can a Self-Published Author Have an Agent? http://booksbywomen.org/can-a-self-published-author-have-an-agent-by-alison-morton/ http://booksbywomen.org/can-a-self-published-author-have-an-agent-by-alison-morton/#comments Wed, 04 Mar 2015 13:28:41 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=13067 Can a self-published/independent author have an agent? Surely, it’s a contradictory state? Well, no, not in today’s publishing world. Last May, I signed with A for Authors literary agency to represent me for subsidiary and foreign rights. As the congratulations flowed in, I was a little overwhelmed by the lovely things people said on Facebook […]

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]]> http://booksbywomen.org/write-romance-novel-want-read/feed/ 9 11658 The Inside Scoop: Working with a Freelance Editor http://booksbywomen.org/inside-scoop-working-freelance-editor/ http://booksbywomen.org/inside-scoop-working-freelance-editor/#comments Thu, 27 Mar 2014 04:00:44 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=11181 Your draft is done. You’ve re-read it a dozen times and you can’t stand to be near it another minute. Cleaning the bathroom is starting to sound more appealing than revising your book yet another time. Well, it sounds like you’re ready to work with an editor! Hiring a freelance editor is one of the […]

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]]> http://booksbywomen.org/inside-scoop-working-freelance-editor/feed/ 16 11181 Show Don’t Tell: The Page Is A Stage http://booksbywomen.org/show-dont-tell-the-page-is-a-stage-by-sue-moorcroft/ http://booksbywomen.org/show-dont-tell-the-page-is-a-stage-by-sue-moorcroft/#comments Tue, 14 Jan 2014 00:02:33 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=10777 It’s as if editors believe they’re tutors when they return your work with, ‘Show, don’t tell!’ And you think, ‘I wish I could get some real feedback.’ But, in my opinion, they’re giving you really good advice. Think of a play. Actors are on the stage, but there’s a narrator at the side. The narrator […]

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