Tag: Fiction
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How meeting Sam Hiyate changed my writing life
The first time I pitched to agents was by far my most terrifying experience as a writer. A friend convinced me to attend a weekend writing conference and, at the end, we pitched a dozen agents. In person! I wasn’t the only one panicking either. People were freaking out around me. Some refused to leave their hotel rooms…
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Creating Memorable Characters in Literary Fiction
By Author Christopher Canniff Perhaps you think of humorous characters, such as the vivacious Ignatius J. Reilly in A Confederacy of Dunces, Yossarian’s eccentric hilarity in Catch-22, or the impetuous and resourceful Henry Smart in Roddy Doyle’s A Star Called Henry. Maybe you recall the tenacity of Santiago in Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea,…
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How NOT To Query
Guest post by author @StephanJHahn. I am no expert in the art of the query letter. In fact, I’m deep in the trenches of a war that I don’t even want to be fighting with all the people I don’t want to be fighting with. I recently finished an epic fantasy manuscript and I thought…