After I finished writing my first novel, the advice I received most often -- along with "don't query everyone at once" -- was "Keep writing. Don't wait to get an agent or get published. If you have another novel in you, start writing it. Now." I've read various interviews with published authors conveying the same sentiment, and several authors I've corresponded with directly stressed this, as well. Whenever I receive this advice, I usually...
YOU GUYS. Right now.... as we speak... (erm, type? Read? Whatever!) ... and, quite possibly, at this very moment... A LITERARY AGENT IS READING MY MANUSCRIPT!!!!! *squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee* I can't believe I'm finally, finally writing these words. I thought this freakin' day would never come. You all remember the query quandary I was in last year. Writing my first novel turned out to be the easy part, while crafting the "perfect...
If it hadn’t been for Harvey Weinstein, I might never have written a novel. I know, I know. What a thing to say. But, it’s true. I’ve been writing stories since I was six years old, but I became serious about writing in middle and high school, when poems and short stories just seemed to pour out of me. I was published in my high school literary journal, won writing contests, and got As on all my creative writing assignments; it was if...
