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9 Effective Ways to Handle Negative Feedback on Your Novel

For aspiring fiction writers, the journey of completing a novel is full of twists and turns. One of the most likely to derail the beginner writer is receiving negative feedback. While it may be disheartening, dealing with critique is an essential part of honing your craft and evolving as a writer.

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7 Tips for Writing Queer Characters

As writers, we often hear the old adage “Write what you Know”, but you’ll find much discussion online as to how best to interpret this advice. In my opinion, you should not let it put you off writing a diverse cast of characters in your stories, including members of the LGBT+ community. If every character was essentially a clone of you, it would make for a rather dull story. And if only queer writers write about queer characters, it would make for a sad lack of representation in literature. . .

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How to Deal With Story Rejections

We’re writers. We may each have our own unique voice and style but, when we send our stories out into the world, we send them swaddled tightly in the same hope of acceptance. It’s only natural. We’ve pored over . . .

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20 Greatest Short Story Writers of All Time

American short story writer Lorrie Moore once said that if novels are films, short stories are photographs, fleeting glimpses into other worlds and lives. If this is the case, a collection is an album; bound in leather and filled with distinct but connected images, slipped onto a shelf and occasionally brought down to be perused. Here, then, are twenty of the greatest short story writers and their snapshots of the ordinary and the fantastic, the wonderful and the disturbing.

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How to Write Drabbles

James Hancock (co-author of The Dark of Day: A Collection of 66 Drabbles) talks us through the process of crafting 100 word stories.

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6 Book Cover Elements That Can Help You Sell More Copies

A good book cover design is important for a number of reasons. First and foremost, a book cover is the first thing that a potential reader sees when they encounter your book, whether it's in a physical bookstore or online. As such, the cover is often the first opportunity you have to make a good impression and grab the reader's attention.

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Great Indie Books to Read in 2024

Our picks of the best indie books to read this year.

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Our List of the Best Novella Competitions in 2024

Longer than a short story, shorter than a novel. One of the real differences between a novella and a novel is that novellas have fewer subplots. Their narratives are usually much more linear and have less complicated and fewer conflicts. Novellas usually don’t have chapters, either. They are often focused particularly on the character or characters, rather than having a complicated plot. Just like short stories, they typically have a singular focus. This is our list of the best novella competitions in 2024. We’ll update it when new contests open. If you run a novella competition, please get in touch!