April 2007

The Writer

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Features
Step by Step: A daily plan to boost your output using a ''treadmill'' writing journal
By Gregory Martin
Step by Step: How to use setups and payoffs in your fiction
By William Kowalski
Step by Step: 10 ways to make your manuscript agent-ready
By Jordan E. Rosenfeld
Fiction writing for the thrill of it
By Jack Smith
Build your imagination and power of expression with these writing exercises
By Sherry Ellis
Research: Blending fact with fiction
By Sara Gruen
Research: primary sources-handle with care, but do handle
By David J. Eicher
7 essential tools for narrative writing
By Roy Peter Clark
What you need to know before you publish
By Kelly James-Enger
Archive: Vintage advice from The Writer
Departments
Breakthrough
A writer’s success story
Listening to others' stories leads to a new direction in writing
By Pat McGrath Avery
Freelance Success
Get rich with a niche
Get Published
Get started
Help for the new writer
Learn to write women's fiction
By Eileen Goudge
How I write
Established writers share their writing practices
Robert Pinsky
Letters
Literary spotlight
Small Spiral Notebook
By Gregg Rosenblum
Market focus
Special interest mags
Market listings
Publications, publishers, agents
Annual list of writer conferences
Off the cuff
Growing up with The Writer
Poet to poet
Syntax
Shtick it to them
Writer at work
Practical solutions for writing problems
WriteStuff
Book reviews, products and resources
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