Content Suggestions
Any of these topics would be improved by having a few or even all of our povs.
blog topics |
articles |
conference reports |
book recommendations
**Article/thoughts needed on:
- why to attend a conference/how to make the most of a conference
- giving/getting crits
- finding a crit group
- history/birth of Creative Support (could include tips on finding a crit group or partner)
- the benefits of writing exercises/prompts
- plotter vs. panster
- pitching
- writing query letters
- writing synopsis
- research
- craft, pure and simple
- the 'biz'... ins and outs of finding an agent, getting published, self promotion, anything industry related
**if you'd prefer any of the articles you write to be on your own site and we just link to it from FP, that works, too.
Blog Topics
- Distractions and how we deal with them
- Writing on a deadline
- First edits, ick
- Second edits, more ick
- Outlines and scene maps
- To conference or not?
- Personal websites
- Write for the editor or for yourself?
- Promotions and book tours
- Self-publishing, pros and cons
- E-books, pros and cons
- Books in the news
- Mega-best-sellers, you go, girl! (or guy)
- Laptop, Neo, or pad and pencil?
- Writing as a second or third job
- Taking writing classes
- Books on writing, pros and cons
- The Call - either agent rep or sale
- Imposteritis, how to fight it
- Writing for a specific market
- How edgy is edgy in YA?
- Family support (are they mutually exclusive?)
- Contracts **(my mama the lawyer may be able to guest blog here)
- When is your writing a business?
- What's selling now?
- Plotting
Conference reports still needed on:
- Maui
- SCWBI
- RWA National
- (And any other conference)
- How about a word on writers' retreats like Yaddo?
Book Recommendations —for books on the craft of writing and the writing life. If you can, include a blurb on why you like this book
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