I’m starting a campaign. Time for a “second wave” critique partnership model. “Rachel, what do you mean? I love my critique partners.” I know! Keeping loving them. Love them well! …
The Greatest Mentor of All Time
There are fads and trends in publishing. When I started it was all about the critique group. Or crit partners. Go to any writers conference and you had people running …
Weekly Spark: Suspense Pacing—Utilizing the Reader’s Imagination
Have you ever watched a scene in a scary movie where the camera pans around the house in a tight zoom from room to room? Nothing bad or frightening is …
Conference Is Coming! Are You Ready To Submit?
The ACFW conference is right around the corner!
And you’re ready! It’s time. Really time. You’ve been writing and rewriting this book for eons. Or at least it feels like eons. You want to submit it, get going on your stellar writing career. Time’s a wastin’!
Maybe you haven’t been working on it for eons, but you went to a conference or two, and you’ve heard an editor say she was really looking for the next great romance author to groom and you have just the story.
Or finally, one of the BIG PUBLISHERS is actively seeking speculative fiction and your space navy story is ready for the picking.
Perhaps your story has been through a critique or edit of some kind. A reader (mom, dad, sister, best friend, hubby, wifey) LOVED it. They want more! Now.
So you rush your baby off to an editor or agent. Maybe some of you rush it off to someone like me or Susie here at My Book Therapy.
Two Key Things I’ve Learned About Writing Novellas vs. Novels
In the beginning there was the novel … well, at least in the beginning of my fiction writing career, there was the novel, and nothing but the novel.
And then my editor asked, “What do you think about writing a novella?”
And I said, “Why not?”
My first novellawas You Made Me Love You. And I liked the process, even as I learned that writing a novel and writing a novella are two very different things.
And then I read a Facebook post where some people were discussing novel versus novella – you know, the whole choose one or the other. And I wondered why. Why does it have to be novel or the novella? Why not enjoy both? Choose a novel when you’re up for a longer read, a more detailed story. And choose a novella when you’re looking for something shorter, something simpler, but just as enjoyable as a full-length novel.