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When is Your Manuscript Finished?

May 28, 2015 By Lynette Benton Leave a Comment

If you're not sure if you've finished your manuscript, slide on over to the Grub Daily blog and see my post It's Done When It's Done.         … [Read more...] about When is Your Manuscript Finished?

Filed Under: Creative Writing Tips Tagged With: creative writing tips, Editing

Are Literary Agents Outmoded? Should They Be? Part 1

February 1, 2013 By Lynette Benton 2 Comments

Disclaimer: My one contact with a literary agent about my own work was pleasant and professional. My opinions below are based on agent blogs I read online. The ferociously fast rise of self-publishing has significantly reduced writers’ dependence on agents—the first line of publishing gatekeepers. … [Read more...] about Are Literary Agents Outmoded? Should They Be? Part 1

Filed Under: Personal Essays Tagged With: creative writing, Editing, rejected writing

When the Editor Is Edited

January 14, 2013 By Lynette Benton 6 Comments

It's Done . . . Isn't It? Anyone who listened to my laments during my years of searching for my mother’s money, then supported me while I moaned my way through writing about the experience, knows how agonizing I considered the process of putting it down on paper. I’m glad my writing of My Mother’s … [Read more...] about When the Editor Is Edited

Filed Under: Memoir Writing, My Mother's Money, Personal Essays Tagged With: Editing

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