Tag: fiction

  • Handling the Truth By John Scherber

    Jack Nicholson famously said to Tom Cruise in the 1992 movie A Few Good Men, “You can’t handle the truth!” This line has a resonance that survives today––a remarkable feat for a statement that is fundamentally untrue. Because at a personal level, there is no single ongoing truth to be handled. The reality is that…

  • Publishing Without New York By John Scherber

      So you’re ready to publish your great novel, the one that took you eight years of agony to write, but no one’s interested. You even have an agent. Signing with her made you feel like you were really on your way, but now she rarely returns your calls, and you don’t know exactly what…

  • Why Movies Will Never Replace Books By John Scherber

      Movies have been with us for about 115 years now. Their charm is obvious––movement, sound, color, the impact of constantly changing visuals. Some even offer 3-D. Aren’t they about the most stimulating entertainment possible? The violence especially is often more than you could ever imagine, or would want to. With all this, why would…

  • Writing the Query Letter

    So, you’ve finished you’ve novel. Now what? Well, most writers would start by tracking down a literary agent or a publishing house that is right for them. They would get a subscription to the Writer’s Market, browse through the agencies or publishers, and then choose about fifteen to send off sample pages and a query…

  • Understanding Vantage Point In Writing By Nathan Feuerberg

    Often, first time writers pick up a pen because something has happened in their life that they believe others should know about.  Maybe they have just finished the twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous or possibly they watched a friend bleed to death in Iraq and they’ve decide they need to write a memoir or novel…

  • How to Write What You Know By Nathan Feuerberg

    It is common to hear people advise writers to, ‘Write what you know.’  Everyone from granddaddies to customs officials will hand out this bit of information to aspiring writers as though it is the answer to everything.  And in a way it is.  Whether the advice giver knows it or not they are pointing out…

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