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Monday Discovery — The Query Tracker Blog: “Why You Should Critique Other People’s Queries” by Sarah Pinneo

Many of you are familiar with Query Tracker, a gold mine of information about agents and publishing. This article on the Query Tracker Blog (posted 1/16/2013)—“Why You Should Critique Other People’s Queries” by Sarah Pinneo—particularly interested me, since I’m in the … Continue reading

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A Post Hop

Now that the October Memoir Challenge is done, I thought it might be a good time to give you a tour of various kinds of posts at The Writerly Life. If you started following the blog during the challenge, you … Continue reading

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Read It and Weep (Not), Part 2: The Writer’s Role

“We all end up needing thick skin, to an extent, but also need to be able to trade work with peers whose advice we know will push us, in an environment of trust!” —from Elissa Field: comment on Read It and Weep … Continue reading

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Read It and Weep (Not)

I’ve been thinking about critiques—how to give and receive them. An online group I belong to, an offshoot of the My Name Is Not Bob Platform Challenge (April 2012), has bonded as an active, online community, and now we’re looking for ways we … Continue reading

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