Welcome to your Friday Morning FYI! My chance to share observations/wisdom/rants in short, easily consumed form.
This week’s FYI is inspired by yesterday’s #PitMad on Twitter (if you’re unfamiliar, #PitMad – short for ‘Pitch Madness’ – is a twelve hour period where writers pitch their books through tweets, and agents and editors Favorite to indicate interest):
Thanks for reading,
{RDj}
Over on her blog, Michelle Hauck is hosting a first page critique where writers create a link to a blog post with the first 250 words of their novel, and then offer feedback to other writers. Sounds like fun :), so here’s mine. Even if you’re not participating in the critique, feel free to comment.
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Welcome to your Friday Morning FYI! My chance to share observations/wisdom/rants in short, easily consumed form.
This week’s FYI is writer-focused (if you’re not a writer, that’s OK, you’ll get the idea):
Writers, try to read like a reader, not a writer. Yes, this is harder than it sounds, but is especially important when self-editing, and when another writer asks you to look at their work.
Thanks for reading,
{RDj}
If you write and plan to publish, attending writing conferences is invaluable. There’s so much to learn, so many people to meet, and a lot of fun to be had. I recently attended my first conference, the Writer’s Digest Annual Conference in New York City, and can’t express how much of an impact it had on me. But since I hate “… can’t…”, I’m going to try.
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