FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: Writers, share a time when you learned something to improve your craft from reading or watching someone else’s fiction. Writers: This is a writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as part of a discussion about the topic. Join the chat: FB: http://bit.ly/1MvPABVMeWe: http://bit.ly/2mjg8lf
Hi all! Scott and I just got back from Dreamspinner’s author conference in Orlando. Going to author conferences is a great way to connect, to get those personal contacts and have some face to face meetings, but they also tend to be packed with classes. This is true of the DSP conference, but also large conferences like Romantic Times and so on. As writers, we should always be learning something. It’s up to the writer to decide what you think you need, but we should always strive to grow as professionals – craft, business, knowledge base. If you think you … Read more
Unless you have self-published exclusively, rejection is a universal experience for authors. It’s not fun. It can hurt when you thought you’d found the perfect home for a story that’s been polished to within an inch of its literary life. I’m sympathetic up to a point. Yes, I cried when I received my first rejection many years ago and I’ll allow you that. One good cry. Then it’s time to suck it up, buttercup, and make that which did not kill you help you become a better author. I have a box full of rejection letters from the bad old … Read more
