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Three Questions to Ask Yourself When Transforming a Short Story Into a Novel
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When I first wrote my short story, "Escaping Time," I intended for it to be a standalone piece about a teenage girl attempting to escape from a military brothel during World War II. I was satisfied with the final draft and even submitted it for publication in my creative writing program's short story anthology, The Mechanics' Institute Review . By the time it was chosen for publication, I had already begun to have second thoughts about its completeness. Due to its subject matter, I needed to include a lot of background information in order for the reader to understand what was going on at that time in history and that part of the world, but I was confined by the parameters of the short story and unable to expand on both of these issues in the way I could in a novel. By the time the anthology went to the printer, I decided to expand it into a novel. Click here to continue.
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| Literary agent Jennifer Chen Tran of Bradford Literary is open to queries! She is currently seeking contemporary, upmarket, and literary women's fiction; select young adult projects with a distinct voice, select middle-grade projects; and graphic novels and visually-driven projects. She's also interested in a variety of nonfiction. Read More... |
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| Guide to Literary Agents 2018
| The 2018 edition is now available, with listing information for more than 1,000 agents who
represent writers!
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| Nic Stone's poignant and timely Dear Martin hit the ground running on Amazon in its first week, trending #1 in the YA literature category and landing on the New York Times bestseller's list. A student of Jodi Picoult, Stone crafted what reviewers are calling a "gripping" tale that is loosely based on recent events surrounding the shooting deaths of unarmed black teens. The book, which tells the story of a young man who begins a journal of letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. after he is racially profiled, is touching hearts and stirring conversation in light of current events and America's contentious political landscape. Here, we talk with Stone about the book, her process and her advice for writers. Read More... |
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| I recently moved into a new house and office, and was faced with carting along decades of writing research in the process. Books, albums, boxes of photos, cassettes; that was the easy part. Assembling the stacks of files, the collapsed cartons of photocopies, insect-infested pamphlets and newspaper clippings, the 10,000 pages of FBI files on a single life; that was more like stumbling into an ancient wine cellar, corkscrew in hand. Read More... |
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Cris Freese
Cris Freese is the managing editor for Writer's Digest Books and Writer's Market. He edits Guide to Literary Agents (both online and in print) and Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market. Follow him on Twitter @crisfreese. |
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