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  • Top 10 Tips on Getting an Agent

    Guest post by Casey McCormick Earlier this month, I did a survey of topics that interested readers here at Fiction Notes. One topic was agents and how to get an agent. Agent interviews and tips on getting an agent feels outside my expertise; I usually send people over to the Literary Rambles blog where Casey […]

  • Publicist Ashlee Rowe

    Guest post by Ashlee Rowe. A Wisconsin native, Ashlee Rowe was the public relations manager for a small children’s publisher before leaving for the freelance writing and publicity market. She currently lives in Charleston, SC. For your publicity needs contact her at rowe.ashlee@gmail.com You’ve probably been there. The local bookstore or festival signing shiny new […]

  • Scenes: Think Like a Writer

    Here’s another creative writing prompt for your 750 words, a challenge to write 750 words each day to better Think Like a Writer. Read more here. To think like a writer, you must learn to write in scenes as one of the basic creative writing prompts. A scene is a set of contained actions and […]

  • Subtext: What is this Story Really About?

    Here’s another creative writing prompt for your 750 words, a challenge to write 750 words each day to better Think Like a Writer. Read more here. I’m on a 4 day streak, after messing up a 36 day streak of writing daily on 750words.com. Sigh. Why did I mess up? Too many family issues going […]

  • 9 Tips on Opening Lines & Opening Chapters of Your NaNoWriMo Novel

    If you’re doing NaNoWriMo, the National Novel Writing Month, you’ll be starting at midnight tonight or first thing in the morning. You’ll be opening your story with a great scene, right? Here are resources for those first lines, opening chapters of your novel. 10 Opening Line Strategies, illustrated with the top 100 opening lines of […]

  • Advice to a Beginner

    Writing for Kids? It’s easy, right? Recently, I’ve talked to several beginners and here’s some of the most common advice I give. Main Character to Relate to and Identify With What age are you writing for? Adults? Then, you need an adult main character. Teens? Then, you need a teen main character. Elementary age kid? […]