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Dear-Editor.com is Giving Away a Free Edit Former Harcourt editor, Deborah Halverson is celebrating the one-month anniversary of her new blog, Dear-Editor.com, with a Free Giveaway. It’s a “substantive edit” of an 85,000 word or less middle grade or young adult (teen) novel. About Deborah Disclosure: Deborah was my fabulous editor for Searching for Oliver [...]
A Gold Mine Awaits in Your File Drawers Take a good look at the files in your file drawers! You could be rich by mining those drawers. There are snatches of dialogue, character sketches, interesting anecdotes, tons of research and facts on obscure things. For example, from my research for novels, I can tell you [...]
I’ve updated my Events Schedule on my website. Click here to see the 2010 schedule, which includes four Novel Revision Retreats, two writing conferences and eight summer professional development sessions for teachers. Click here for more information on asking Darcy to speak at your event. I’m now scheduling for 2011.
I’m at a place where I’m looking for a new novel idea. (Yes, I’m still looking around for a new idea. I’m slow this time, but I think I’ve found an event that is fascinating. Reading background material now.) One strategy I’m using to find ideas is to re-read old novels from my file drawers. [...]
Private v. Public Stories: When to Hold Back We’re talking about those old files, old stories, old passions that are hidden in your file drawer. Here are four manuscripts that should stay in your drawer. Your first manuscript. No, you are not allowed to air your first attempts at writing fiction to the world. No. [...]
A 5-part series. How Valuable is Your File Drawer? You are writing fiction and building a career. One of your valuable assets is your file drawer, your rejected stories. I have 2 four-drawer file cabinets full; plus, my flash includes many partial or complete manuscripts and ideas for stories that never made it to a [...]
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