JOANNA ELM, Author, Journalist, Attorney
The Pleasures and Perils Of A Writing Life
If you google the phrase “how to get literary agent,” you will find at least 20 Google pages of results. The accumulated information comes from writers’ websites, writers’ magazines, from bloggers, from literary agents themselves, from editors eager to polish up your manuscript before you submit to an agent and from authors — like myself — who have found an agent. Continue reading “How To Survive Your Search For A Literary Agent”
Writers sometimes need to get together with other writers to swap stories of the hardships of a writing life, and occasionally to celebrate a piece of good news about the latest WIP (work-in-progress.) This week, I got together with two compadres who I met several years ago at the Algonkian writers’ workshop in St. Augustine, Florida.
Since then, I have mentioned members of this 8-strong group (we call ourselves the Gonks) in posts on this blog. Several of them have contributed guest posts on how to get published (Greg), how to query agents (Mandi) and how to write a screenplay that will get optioned (Doug.) Continue reading “Why We Talked About Quitting At A Writers Reunion”