Ask Victoria. That’s what Therese Walsh dubbed it when we came up with the idea of an editor’s advice column on the new, up-coming Writer Unboxed newsletter. We’d been wanting to collaborate for a long time, take our guest appearances on each other’s blogs to the next level. As soon… Read more“New advice column on Writer Unboxed”
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Debuting on video—A. Victoria Mixon, Editor, interviewed by Joanna Penn
For years, I’ve been holding my husband and son captive over the dinner table as I wave my hands and rant and rave about fiction, writing, publishing, all the many and wonderful intricacies of this extraordinary art and craft. For years. Recently, I’ve been interviewed online in a number of… Read more“Debuting on video—A. Victoria Mixon, Editor, interviewed by Joanna Penn”
3 Things You Need to Know About the New Publishing Industry
One day some years ago, my friend Roz Morris over on Nail Your Novel was talking about an issue that’s extremely important to writers breaking into the industry these days: advice on revision. I started to throw in my two cents in a comment and realized quickly that there was… Read more“3 Things You Need to Know About the New Publishing Industry”
The Art & Craft of Story: 2nd Practitioner’s Manual
It’s live! At midnight last night, we released my second book on writing: The Art & Craft of Story: 2nd Practitioner’s Manual It’s available in print through CreateSpace, in ePub through Smashwords, and should be on the Kindle as soon as they’re done dinking around with it. And for all… Read more“<em>The Art & Craft of Story: 2nd Practitioner’s Manual</em>”
Sneak previews of The Art & Craft of Story:
2nd Practitioner’s Manual
I’ve spent the month of August incognito working on my next book, The Art & Craft of Story: 2nd Practitioner’s Manual, an in-depth study of the Developmental Issues of plot structure and character development, with a long, luxurious discussion of storytelling. It’s scheduled to be released September 30, just in… Read more“Sneak previews of <em>The Art & Craft of Story: <br>2nd Practitioner’s Manual</em>”
4 Tricks for Improving Your Fiction in One Day
We’re talking this month about instantaneous ways to improve craft—because, as Carrie Fisher says, “Instant gratification takes too long.” We’ve talked about 2 Tricks to Breaking Writer’s Block in One Day. And 3 Tricks to Ratcheting Tension in One Day. Now let’s talk about how you can use your own… Read more“4 Tricks for Improving Your Fiction in One Day”
The 4 Most Common Mistakes Fiction Editors See: guest post on Wordplay
In keeping with Wieland Week, today I’m guest posting on Katie’s site, Wordplay. Save money! Save time! Hoodee-hoo! Learn the very first things I look for in new client manuscripts: The 4 Most Common Mistakes Fiction Editors See
11 New Year’s Resolutions for Writers in 2011
I will watch the world every day with the eyes of a fly. I’m assuming you know what flies’ eyes look like. But in case you don’t, think of disco balls with independent locomotion. You, personally, are walking through this incredibly vivid, visual, aural, tactile universe all day long every… Read more“11 New Year’s Resolutions for Writers in 2011”
6 Golden Rules of NaNoWriMo
It’s that time of year again! Gird your loins, and pick up your pens. You’re about to embark on the ride of your lives. You’re not supposed to take it too seriously If you only learn one thing about NaNoWriMo, ever from anyone, learn this: it’s meant to be fun…. Read more“6 Golden Rules of NaNoWriMo”
4 Big Reasons to be Grateful for Independent Editors
You’re living and writing right now, today, in the midst of huge change in the publishing industry. It’s so huge that by the time you’re ten years older you’ll have navigated the tectonic shift from Pangea to a modern continent. One of the major developments of that change is the… Read more“4 Big Reasons to be Grateful for Independent Editors”