on my latest cruising through the newstand writing magazines.
I’m actually thinking about subscribing to Writers’ Journal, as I have been finding useful articles in it each time I check it out. In this issue there were again several I marked, although I think I will paper clip this issue unlike the last one. This time [...] Read more »

Or, in non-ten-year-old-speak, Duotrope has gotten a nice facelift. Their icons have gotten larger and clearer, and the colors of the genre icons are much clearer, making it much easier to tell which genre a market is looking for. (Before the colors of the genres could get confusing.) The payscale and length of works accepted [...] Read more »

I posted a rejection letter not too long ago that warned me to watch out for using the introductory participle. Interestingly enough, not too long after the rejection, I received an acceptance that asked for revision as I used the participle phrase too often. She said:
You tend to use verbs ending in -ing a [...] Read more »

Yesterday I wrote about several well-known writing magazines: Writer’s Digest, Writers’ Journal, Poets & Writers and The Writer. Like I stated, I generally don’t purchase writing books or magazines unless there is something specific I am looking for or am interested in, but there is a big business in marketing to authors. All four of [...] Read more »

Years ago when I started trying to write seriously I purchased a subscription to Writer’s Digest, and I kept it going for a few years. The more I wrote however, the less help I found the magazine as a whole. Part of the reason was that I found they often ran articles that were variations [...] Read more »