Classic from r/writing 👽 Top 200: Understand that most of the advice you get on this subreddit... https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/1fc8n0a #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips

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daily words today: "Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young" — Rabindranath Tagore #writingcommunity

One of the 👽 /writing 👽 greats: Masashi Kishimoto, author of the famous anime series “Naruto... https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/ammrbl #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips

just a good ol' fashioned daily author quote: "If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain" — Emily Dickinson #writingcommunity

I swear by: Index cards, Note cards, Coffee, Gummy erasers, noise cancelling cans The little black thing is a valve stem - all that was left of our car after being totaled and towed away this year - a Talisman of sorts. Happy Noche Buena writers and readers! #writingcommunity

📖 a small tale of rejection — Herman Melville, "Moby Dick"

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Recon from beyond the trenches: "[QCrit] Adult Romance, HOW YOU HEAR ME (93k, attempt 9)" https://www.reddit.com/r/PubTips/comments/1pp5onj Query better at https://writequeryhook.com #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips

🫡 "I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday" — Raymond Chandler #writingcommunity

Cosigned. Many story-telling traditions don’t include active protagonists. Demanding that they be closes the door on a world of great stories.

“Write to the market.” You’ll never catch the market. By the time you’ve written it, the market is gone. Write what you’re on fire to write, and sometimes the market shows up.

🫖 Just a little sip of decaf rejection before bed: "Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devilbut there is no way around them" #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying

Book mail! Hope your holidays are filled with the like! #bookmail #writingcommunity #booksky

One of the 👽 /writing 👽 greats: Roald Dahl's tips for creating interesting characters - "The... https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/jb3m3c #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught" — Oscar Wilde #writingcommunity

When you are data collecting within your exact subgenre - you want to notice POV, tense, head hopping and favored writing styles of that genre. What works for one genre may not work for another as they likely have different reader demographics. Pay attention. #writingcommunity #booksky #selfpub

Congrats to Deborah Williams for signing with Mark Gottlieb from our Writing Away Refuge Nov. Zoom Pitch. Deborah is #39 to sign from our Zoom pitching events. Want to be #40? #writingcommunity #writingawayrefuge #amquerying #amwriting #writerslife #writer www.writingawayrefuge.com/copy-of-writ...

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daily rejection inspiration: "No rejection is fatal until the writer walks away from the battle leaving dreams and goals behind" — Jeff Herman #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying

📖 rejection file: — Kathryn Stockett, "The Help"

📖🦈 Discuss: https://queryshark.blogspot.com/2016/06/ original content not ours but by queryshark.blogspot.com #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips

got some intel 💌 for you writers: Agent Larissa Melo Pienkowski opened to queries at https://querytracker.net/agent/11127 More tools for writers at https://writequeryhook.com #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips

🤔 "In 'Open City,' there is a passage that any reader of Joyce will immediately recognise as a very close, formal analogue of one the stories in 'Dubliners.' That is because a novel is also a literary conversation" — Teju Cole #writingcommunity

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daily rejection inspiration: "For every accomplishment there were twenty rejections….In the end, though, only one attitude enabled me to move ahead. That attitude said, ‘Rejection can simply mean redirection" #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying

📖 "There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man" — Edgar Allan Poe #writingcommunity

📖 a small tale of rejection — Madeleine L'Engle, "A Wrinkle in Time"

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👽 one of the r/PubTips all time hits: [Discussion] What I learned about publishing (and selling) b... https://www.reddit.com/r/PubTips/comments/1l1t6cr #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips

"It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes" — Thomas Paine ✍️ #writingcommunity

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📖 rejection file: — Stephen King, "Carrie"

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👽 r/writing Hall of Famer: Characters are defined not just by how they speak, but how o... https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/kdpb1j #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips

Straight from the Slushwire 🍧 scanner: Agent Morgan Strehlow opened to queries at https://querytracker.net/agent/15397 Tools for writers at https://writequeryhook.com #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips

🌤️ daily quote time! "No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience" — John Locke #writingcommunity

daily rejection inspiration: "I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of cake and it really wasn’t. I have drawers full ofor I did havedrawers full of rejection slips" #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying

all-time top 200 r/writing throwback: [From Pinterest] Sad Rich Characters https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/am8lgx #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips

All of this. Be extremely wary of those words. They’re part of the reason I withdrew a story from a dream market this year.

I didn’t know I needed this until seeing it.

"I am a big, big, big fan of people that add their voice, especially when it's a funny voice to the query letter. The tone is so great." —Ivan Taurisano, Macmillan editor, on what makes queries stand out at our latest Query & Page Feedback Panel #AmQuerying #QueryTip #WritingCommunity

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🫖 Just a little sip of decaf rejection before bed: "“Writers often feel…that repeated rejections accompanied by reasoned letters mean that in the end there’s no hope. This is simply not true.”" — John Gardner #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying

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📚 Famous rejection story: — J.R.R. Tolkien, "Lord of the Rings"

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Slushwire 📫 just doing its job for you: "[PubQ] Querying Feminist Novels as a NB Writer?" https://www.reddit.com/r/PubTips/comments/1pkgnkw Query better at https://writequeryhook.com #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips

📖 "People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays; it's one exclamation point to another." — Tom Wolfe #writingcommunity