Oh dang, I've been given so many rejections, I'd have a book if they were all bound. It took changing my genre to finally get accepted. You have to keep trying. Even Stephen King got a slew of rejections and even threw Carrie in the trash before attempting to publish it.
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Love your writing and welcome to our group. I'm fairly new and just love it here.
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Here are a couple I've used in workshops I've given recently. Because the prompts I make up are always based on excerpts from published works (so the writer has amodel for his his/her response), I...
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@Jen, I do! Mine was so bad it only got to 20k words before I looked at it and thought, "Wow, this sucks." Trash can, the second was still rough going but I agree working through the process has taught me a ton.
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We sat in silence for the simple reason that that there were no more words to be said. Seated in the passenger seat of my 1978 Datsun, I stared out the window as the p...
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Laurie, No, don't trash it. I think you've got an excellent start here.
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I think you all are making valid points in defense of quality black writings, but what we need to define is "urban literature." When I taught lit and students wanted t...
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Pets?
Allergies, annoying yappy dawgs, possibly a ferret suddenly appearing in your handbag, + some people (like me who has been bitten numerous times) are afraid of l...
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I've attended a couple of classes -- don't know if you have them in your area -- offered by San Diego Writers, Ink and led by an actual literary agent, who deconstruct...
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Frances is tired of being single so as she, walks the boardwalk of hometown she looks at the single men. As she walks the boardwalk she takes in the various games, the...
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