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These essential craft books will sharpen your skills as a fiction writer and reader.
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Read a message from The Threepenny Editor’s founder, Sarah Cypher, on this site’s new look and feel and our promise to writers.
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Editing isn’t a money-for-labor swap–it is a transfer of knowledge, a common participation in the novel’s emotional and intellectual content, and a sharing of love and respect for the power of storytelling.
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How do you signal the boundaries of your story world?
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Almost two decades of working with other writers have shown me a few models of how creative work can be done successfully: the clockwork model or the cyclical one.
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For all the talk of "NYC vs. MFA" in the writing world, I think everyone believes that fiction has the best chance of success when a skilled writer is able to execute exactly what they set out to do.
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Every author struggles for writing success on three levels: career success, project success, and process success.
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Here is a short Publishers Marketplace tutorial on how to get the most of out this tool when you query agents.
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If you've put thousands of hours into a manuscript, how much should you spend on a professional book editor?
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