I thought it is time for a positive article from to congratulate Triond on what it is doing right. The problem is, there is not a lot to say about that. Do you know when Triond converted from a moderately well managed site to a total loser?
In the same message Triond announced its new challenge to its writers, it also revealed its weird sense of efficiency by publishing the figures on the use of the disastrously ill conceived flag button. Worse, the figures reveal nothing to be proud of (as Triond’s incapable editors seem to think) but a complete lack in what these selfsame editors should be doing right in the first place.
Query letters often cause fiction writers to shake and gnash at their teeth. You’re basically asking someone else to consider your work, your life’s blood, so the emotions are somewhat understandable. But there is help out there to make your query letters stronger. What help? The Query Shark blog.
Controversy sometimes surrounds the Preditors & Editors site, but that’s to be expected when the site’s goals are to help writers and to warn writers away from potential scams and those who practice possibly troubling business practices within the publishing industry.
Dialogue for a writer is a great tool but not easy to master at first. I raise some interesting points on Dialogue.
Time is gold. Learn to make the most of it without spending hours on end doing something.
Taking every oportunity to push your work, even harder on the web, is yet another way to get things moving in the right direction for you.
More and more often editors are dismissing articles based on facts as opinion or editorial style writing.
My views on the creative writing online process.
Writing is a business like any other business and certain things are expected, needed, required to make that business a success. One important thing about writing is you need to love it. If you don’t love writing you won’t write well. Read more…