Faking It: Inventing Fictional Media for Your Novel
Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem; Spinal Tap; Put That Thing Back Where It Came From, or So Help Me; Crime Scene: Scene of the Crime; Southwest General; The...
Breaking In: September/October 2024
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How I Turned a Common Rejection Story Into an Uncommon Success Story
It began with a story familiar to many aspiring authors: In 2020 I wrote a book I believed in, edited it, polished it, and sent it off to a handful of...
Fracturing Fairy Tales to Jumpstart Your Writing
When I was a kid, I used to love the “Fractured Fairy Tales” shorts that appeared on the Rocky and Bullwinkle animated TV show. They took classic fairy...
Sprinting Across Alligators: How to Use Vignettes as Stepping Stones to Build a Novel
When I was a kid I played a game on Atari called Pitfall. In one part, the hero had to quickly step across a bridge of snapping alligators. These little...
Successful Queries: Tracy Bernstein and “A Grim Reaper’s Guide to Catching a Killer,” by Maxie Dara
Welcome back to the Successful Queries series. In this installment, find the query letter pitched to Tracy Bernstein for Maxie Dara's book A Grim Reaper's...
Jenny Haysom: Publishing Isn’t Always the Endgame
Jenny Haysom has published her writing in magazines across Canada. Her debut poetry collection, Dividing the Wayside, won the Archibald Lampman Award and...
Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 715
For this week's prompt, write a resource poem. There are natural resources, like water, coal, lumber, etc. There are also academic resources, like a...
9 Things I’ve Learned Writing a Memoir
Honestly, I thought a memoir would be easier. Starting my third book, the memoir I Will Do Better—about the first two years of raising my small daughter...
