Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Creatives can be thin-skinned. We love what we do, and we invest a lot of ourselves in the work we create. As a result, criticism of our work can feel like criticism of ourselves. And the more personal…
Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > The best way to completely avoid rejection in the submission process is never to submit. That’s also the way to avoid publication. Some writers do a lot to avoid rejection. I, for example, primarily do work-for-hire projects, so…
Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Holiday time is officially here and with it holiday writing. In fact, we’ve already been through a few big holidays with Thanksgiving and Halloween. During fall and winter, the holidays come fast and varied. And no matter what…
Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Nonfiction article writing suffers from bad press. Beginning writers think it’s probably boring, and that kids would rather not read it. Interestingly enough, that isn’t true at all. Many kids love nonfiction. For some, it’s preferred over fiction.…
Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Writing an effective nonfiction article ending is one of the most easily overlooked aspects of crafting such a project. Many writers simply want to stop writing when they’ve shared all the information they gathered. And you can find…
Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > One of the best ways to learn what makes an engaging article opening is to look at great nonfiction pieces that have been published in magazines and talk about what made them so good. With that in mind,…
Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Most children’s writers gravitate toward fiction. In fact, most people who think about writing anything for children are thinking about picture books with bright illustrations, rhyming text, and whimsical stories (usually involving talking animals), but there is a…
Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > I like to think happy thoughts when it comes to writing. I’ll write something. People will love it. Birds will sing. And sometimes it happens exactly like that. This is especially true if I’ve worked hard on my…
Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Certain things are true of all professional literary agents. If they are good at their job, they function as matchmakers between publishable manuscripts and the publishers who need them. Beyond that, they handle details of contracts and manage…
Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Let’s suppose you’ve written a book, and you’d like to get an agent. You want access to the kinds of publishers you simply cannot reach without an agent. Plus, you want the contract skills that agents tend to bring…
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