Helpful website to read before submitting your novel...

[Erin99]

I know some of you have already looked at this site, but I though these particular pages needed highlighting:

Fundamentals of Fiction: Avoid Those Beginners' Blunders

Five Fiction Mistakes that Spell Rejection

Fundamentals of Fiction: Critique Groups and Writers' Groups




P.S. (And this is for anyone who's visited the site) If you try clicking on the links at the bottom of the page, you'll find they give you a 404 error. To fix this, you need to change the website's URL in the address bar (since I think the webmaster's not updated his links). An example of a bad link:

writing-world.com/fundamentals/fiction07.shtml

To get it to work, you need to change the URL to:

writing-world.com/fiction/fiction07.shtml




Hopefully you'll find some useful tips to help improve your writing.

 

[daisybee]

Leisha you are a star.

Thanks for the links.

 

[Erin99]

(Happy to have helped!)

 

[Erin99]

Oh, and here's another site I've just found:

The Editorial Department | Five Short Steps to the Reject Pile | Dialogue, Reader, Character, Mistake, Out

 

[Thadlerian]

This one's been up before, but it just can't be repeated enough, it's a real treasure:

Turkey City Lexicon

If you can avoid all these, you're pretty good already.

 

[lin robinson]

Whoa, now that one's special.

You see a jillion writing tip sheets from unknowns with vague connections to the industry.

But Shiner and Sterling? Cooooooooooooool!

 

[Question]

Thank you! =)