This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

go to one of the online sites that list agents who are looking for new clients, and then follow their submission guidelines to the letter.

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the more we are willing to separate from distraction and step into the open arms of boredom, the more writing will get on the page.

Think about this before you let your child have an iPad.

no one should go into debt to study creative writing. It’s simply not worth it. Do not think of it as an investment in yourself that you’ll be able to recoup later on. This is not medical school.

a great help to me as I started writing fiction. I might not have experienced what happened, but chances were at some point in my life I had felt the emotions.

Grace Paley was pushing us to be better people when we were still young and capable of change.

Writer’s block is a topic of great discussion, especially among young writers and people who think I should write their book for them. I understand being stuck. It can take a very long time to figure something out, and sometimes, no matter how much time you put in, the problem cannot be solved. To put it another way, if it were a complicated math p

It’s a wonderful thing to find a great teacher, but we also have to find him or her at a time in life when we’re able to listen to and trust and implement the lessons we are given.