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- Joanne C. Hillhouse commented on Bella Mahaya Carter's article [Body, Mind & Spirit] Tips for Reading Excerpts from Your Novel or Memoir...now as my forthcoming book (With Grace) is a picture book and I need to pluck an excerpt that teases the story without giving it away. It'll be a shorter reading than most that's for...
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In Between ProjectsDhana Musil commented on Bella Mahaya Carter's article [Body, Mind & Spirit] Tips for Reading Excerpts from Your Novel or Memoir...on at the end, I know some of us had a hard time digesting that. Basically I am echoing your piece. have a few pieces ready to go, edit it for a shorter time frame, take pride in you...Writing Status Badges
Writing Status Badges help you distinguish yourself based on different stages of your writing life cycle.BrainstormingOutliningResearchingWritingRevisingQueryingPreparing to PublishUnder ContractPublishingPromotingBloggingIn Between ProjectsPatricia Robertson commented on Annie Tucker's article Grammergency #25: Five Shortcuts to Self-Editing Like a Pro...th. I like to vary sentence length. It keeps it more interesting. Why not do the same with chapter length? Long chapters can be broken up by some shorter chapters giving the reader a...Writing Status Badges
Writing Status Badges help you distinguish yourself based on different stages of your writing life cycle.BrainstormingOutliningResearchingWritingRevisingQueryingPreparing to PublishUnder ContractPublishingPromotingBloggingIn Between Projects...to see. The best famous quote (by I don't know who) to fit this situation was something like "Sorry this letter is so long, I would have made it shorter if I'd had time." That also a...Writing Status Badges
Writing Status Badges help you distinguish yourself based on different stages of your writing life cycle.BrainstormingOutliningResearchingWritingRevisingQueryingPreparing to PublishUnder ContractPublishingPromotingBloggingIn Between ProjectsCathy Krizik commented on Emily Lackey's article The Art of Submission: Everything You Need to Start Submitting Your Work Today...and a lower-level one accepts it then you are in a jam. This is what happened to me. The problem is, the smaller, online journals seem to have a shorter turn around time. The fancier...Writing Status Badges
Writing Status Badges help you distinguish yourself based on different stages of your writing life cycle.BrainstormingOutliningResearchingWritingRevisingQueryingPreparing to PublishUnder ContractPublishingPromotingBloggingIn Between ProjectsLloyd Lofthouse commented on Brooke Warner's article 3 Good Reasons to Keep Your Book Shorter than 80,000 Words...ght grow or shrink. As we have heard from others in this thread, there are readers for longer, meatier stories but there is also an audience for shorter work. What's important? I th...Writing Status Badges
Writing Status Badges help you distinguish yourself based on different stages of your writing life cycle.BrainstormingOutliningResearchingWritingRevisingQueryingPreparing to PublishUnder ContractPublishingPromotingBloggingIn Between ProjectsMary Ellen Wall commented on Brooke Warner's article 3 Good Reasons to Keep Your Book Shorter than 80,000 Words...f all is a novella. I want to get into the story and often buy series with each book 90K+. All that said, I am tempted to make my next series 20% shorter to answer the cited trend. Or...Writing Status Badges
Writing Status Badges help you distinguish yourself based on different stages of your writing life cycle.BrainstormingOutliningResearchingWritingRevisingQueryingPreparing to PublishUnder ContractPublishingPromotingBloggingIn Between ProjectsMichelle Cox commented on Kamy Wicoff's article Has She Writes Had An Impact On Your Writing Career? Tell Us How!...ff query after query into the dark, never to hear even the faintest echo in return. I then went back to the drawing board and wrote a whole new (shorter!) novel, A Girl Like You, whi...Writing Status Badges
Writing Status Badges help you distinguish yourself based on different stages of your writing life cycle.BrainstormingOutliningResearchingWritingRevisingQueryingPreparing to PublishUnder ContractPublishingPromotingBloggingIn Between ProjectsJean Wilson Murray commented on Brooke Warner's article 3 Good Reasons to Keep Your Book Shorter than 80,000 WordsIt's always more difficult to write less. I have trouble cutting those "golden" words, but I see the advantage in shorter. I'm going back to the drawing board on my novel and make every word count.Writing Status Badges
Writing Status Badges help you distinguish yourself based on different stages of your writing life cycle.BrainstormingOutliningResearchingWritingRevisingQueryingPreparing to PublishUnder ContractPublishingPromotingBloggingIn Between ProjectsBella Mahaya Carter commented on her article 8 Tips for Taking Care of Yourself while Writing Painful MemoriesSusan Cook Bonifant: Thanks for reading and sharing. I'm so happy to hear that what I wrote resonated with you! I have to keep reminding myself about the importance of shorter writing periods and checking in with my body.
