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How do you know when it's a "practice" novel?

After 300 agent rejections, in spite of your revisions? Based on your critique group's feedback? Or is it "just a feeling"? When is it time…

Started by Christa M. Miller

16 Jun 3, 2007
Reply by Julie Lomoe

Using real names for real places

I've finally started my next novel, and I'm psyched. Thinking over possible settings, I'm tempted to use some real locales in upstate New Y…

Started by Julie Lomoe

10 Jun 1, 2007
Reply by Neil Plakcy

Street View by Google (No, you're not paranoid. Somebody is watching.)

What a great tool for stalking research. Google Maps now offers something called Street View, or actual photographs of the buildings and a…

Started by Harry Hunsicker

4 May 31, 2007
Reply by Neil Plakcy

editing question -- help!

I'm a hillbilly, and some things that sound right to me are very, very wrong and probably come close to illiterate. :D I'm going over my c…

Started by Anne Frasier

37 May 30, 2007
Reply by Bill Cameron

Copy-editing

Another discussion has gotten me to thinking about something (again). I've been a copy-editor for newspapers for 15 years and have given so…

Started by Lourdes Fernandez

7 May 30, 2007
Reply by Lourdes Fernandez

writin' sticks

I can't be the only person who has this problem. What kind of pencil do you use on your copyedited manuscript????? Instructions always ask…

Started by Anne Frasier

21 May 25, 2007
Reply by Stephen Blackmoore

Have a Coke and a Simile

Okay, let's have some fun. Here are three prompts. It's up to you to complete the simile: Skinny as... Flat as... Angry as... Looking f…

Started by Jude Hardin

22 May 25, 2007
Reply by Margot Renne Payne

Pre-publication book touring

Well, my book will be out in October, so I'm scheduled for two book festivals in New Orleans in November (New Orleans Book Festival and the…

Started by Lyn LeJeune

4 May 24, 2007
Reply by Lyn LeJeune

How do you research your crime scenes?

I'm interested in those who have researched, other than online. Have you contacted professionals, gone to the morgue, visited a crime scene…

Started by Cheryl Kaye Tardif

11 May 22, 2007
Reply by Cheryl Kaye Tardif

Short story Maestro

At a party last night, occupying my usual position in a comfortable chair near the beer, and, in this case, next to my old buddy's bookshel…

Started by Bill Mehlman

1 May 21, 2007
Reply by DADavenport

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