Drowning In Slush

Snarky reflections on my journey to get published

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Query Swap

QUERY SWAP (#QUERYSWAP) TWITTER EVENT

It’s Query Swap time again

TO HELP YOU POLISH YOUR QUERY, I’M HOSTING QUERY SWAP (#QUERYSWAP) FROM 8AM-8PM EST ON JUNE 1 and JAN 1

Your hook is your selling point. It has to be perfect. But getting good feedback can often be difficult or expensive. That’s why I’m organizing the Query Swap Twitter party, an all-day event for people seeking critique partners…

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Bad Writing Habits to Eliminate Now - The Manuscript Shredder

In the spirit of Samhain, here is a list of bad writing habits. If any of these are holding you back, make an effort to let them go.

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“Show, don’t tell” is probably the most commonly given advice in writing, but there are places where telling is the right choice.

proof that there are exceptions to every rule in writing

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Romancing the Beat-Recommended - The Manuscript Shredder

Romancing the Beat by author/editor Gwen Hayes is the romance equivalent to plotting books such as Blake Snyder's Save the Cat. Complete Review

My new favorite romance how-to for authors

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Amazon Ad vs. Facebook Ad: A real life comparison - The Manuscript Shredder

The results of my Facebook and Amazon ad campaigns for my non-fiction book. Which was more effective at selling books

side-by-side comparison of facebook and amazon book ads

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Motivation-Reaction Unit - The Manuscript Shredder

Despite being decades old, Dwight Swain's motivation-reaction technique is still relevant. Every time something feels off in the prose, the improperly constructed MRU is usually to blame.

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(via My Real-life Amazon Ad-authortoolbox)

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Worldbuilding: Not just for Fantasy - The Manuscript Shredder

Using a fantasy-style worldbuilding worksheet will help you create an immersive setting no matter what your genre

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How to Be a Good Critique Partner - The Manuscript Shredder

Learning to give better critiques will not only make you more valuable as a critique partner, it will also give you a set of tools to evaluate the feedback you receive.

Checklist for Critique Partners

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Engaging readers from the First Sentence part 2 - The Manuscript Shredder

There are plenty of ways to ruin your first chapter. Avoiding these common problems will get your opening pages one step closer to that coveted request

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Why Writing Advice is Ruining your Manuscript - The Manuscript Shredder

Bad writing advice, and even good advice that doesn’t work for your story, can completely ruin your manuscript. Trying too hard to follow someone else’s writing rules is letting someone else author your story.

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(via NaNoWriMo Plot Point Scrivener Template)

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Why Your Writing Needs Conflict #amwriting #amediting #writingtip #writing #writetip

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(via Citing Photos in Wordpress from Adobe Spark)

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(via Outlawed openings: can they work?-author toolbox)

Waking up, dreams and other outlawed openings: Can they every work?

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(via Your Novel This Month Release Day)

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(via Getting Out of an Editing Loop - The Manuscript Shredder)