After a reader finishes a book or a short story, it’s often the ending that resonates most strongly. In some ways, the whole book is about its ending: Everything leads up to the ending, and once it’s over, everything points back to it. But great endings are hard to do well. They require a writer… Continue Reading
Good literary agents have an inherent interest in taking all queries seriously. The trouble is they are busy, rushed, and have seen it all before. The best approach to getting an agent’s attention is to dazzle him or her from the get-go while simultaneously avoiding certain red flags that agents look for to differentiate work… Continue Reading
Please join Writer’s Relief in welcoming our newest Featured Client, David Hancock. As an author of short prose, David Hancock possesses a unique voice that changes from story to story and immediately establishes an emotional connection with the reader. His characters are strikingly vivid, and even the minor personalities in his pieces are complex and… Continue Reading
Write poetry for enough years, and you may discover a day when you have enough poems to publish a book. There are a number of ways to get your poetry collection published, but they all have one thing in common: The more individual poems you’ve already published by the time you start thinking about your… Continue Reading
Although a “mistake” is always in the eye of the beholder, there are a few common weaknesses that we regularly see in short stories by new authors who are hoping to get published in literary journals. Are you making these common short story mistakes? Read our list, then assess your own short story. Good luck!… Continue Reading
