Free CLIMAX Edit #6 goes to Kathryn Rushing, whose MG novel is set in the Zagros Mountains thousands of years ago. Kathryn wins a free private email chat about her writing! Setup Twelve-year-old Mirren has found her father, Kanen, high in the mountains where he has been sent to capture… Read more“Free CLIMAX Edit: <em>Kathryn</em>”
Tag: Fiction Writing Advice
Embracing your writerliness
Dani Shapiro has written this for the LA Times on how the publishing industry has completely changed in the last twenty-five years, so that the dream of writing you probably grew up on is no longer the dream of publishing you think it is. I can’t tell you how important… Read more“Embracing your writerliness”
Reminding y’all:
Free Edits of your novel CLIMAXES
ONE MORE WEEK, FOLKS. Just a reminder! Until the end of next week I’m running a special on Free Edits of novel Climaxes. Check out the rules here. Check out the entries for this week below!
Free CLIMAX Edit: Julie
AND! Free CLIMAX Edit #5 goes to Julie Cross, who also wins a Developmental Edit for her entire chapter! Setup 15 year old girl MC being haunted by her forty-year-old Algebra teacher whom she hated and watched die during detention, but has now grown to like. The two discover his… Read more“Free CLIMAX Edit: <em>Julie</em>”
Submitting a Free Edit novel CLIMAX anonymously
For the record, I think we’re all in agreement (yes?) that submitting a novel climax for the Free Edit anonymously is fine. So if you’re hanging back because you’re a little shy, don’t worry about it. I can keep it anonymous for you. Although it would be even better if… Read more“Submitting a Free Edit novel CLIMAX anonymously”
Free CLIMAX Edit: Jeff
Free CLIMAX Edit #3 is Jeff’s. . . Setup Jeff didn’t send a setup, and the reason is obvious. Because we can get everything we need to know from his climax. Yeah—that’s pretty vivid writing! Climax The cockpit didn’t go silent, but the noise changed. There had always been a… Read more“Free CLIMAX Edit: <em>Jeff</em>”
Amazing me with your competence
So you guys are kind of blowing me away with your lack of needing Free Edits of your novel Climaxes. I remembered getting a lot more early entries last time. Is it that you have your climaxes just really gorgeously polished? Or is it, as Jordan says with her entry,… Read more“Amazing me with your competence”
Free Edit of your novel CLIMAXES
For first two weeks of February, 2010, I’m running a special on Free Edits of Climaxes just like the special of Free Edits of Hooks I ran last August. Only with a couple of differences in the rules to account for the different role a Climax plays in a novel:… Read more“Free Edit of your novel CLIMAXES”
Hook, developing, climaxing
I’ve got my statues against the sky. —Virginia Woolf, A Writer’s Diary HOOK Why do I want to read your novel? Throw it out there before I even ask. What’s in it for me? Because you’re a great storyteller. That’s the only reason that has ever mattered. And you can… Read more“Hook, developing, climaxing”
Eating the omelet
Two more links, and then I’m done with this Amazon-MacMillan-Apple three-way patty-cake until someone—I don’t know what—launches their opponent into outer space on a rocket or something. The Guardian. Yes, that’s in London. Venessa Miemis at Emergent by Design. And I am RIGHT NOW writing the post to announce the… Read more“Eating the omelet”