November 2005

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Features
Writers and money
By Sarah Anne Johnson
Diagramming: A sure way to build better sentences
By Constance Hale
Departments
STEP by STEP
6 basic rules for writing science fiction
Get Started
Getting the idea for a novel
By Susan Vreeland
Breakthrough
After 62 rejections, a bestseller
Off the cuff
How to blast your way through a writing slump
By Bruce Holland Rogers
Writer at work
How to pare down the essentials
Market focus
Open the door to shelter-magazine markets
Literary Spotlight
Fourth Genre
Get published
Top magazine editors on how to revise your manuscript
MFA programs and literary markets
This month, our annual listing of MFA programs, plus helpful tips from editors at Creative Nonfiction and Grain magazine.
Dear Writer
Send The Writer your questions on writing
Bottom line
Helpful information for your writing career
WriteStuff
Book reviews, products and resources
How I write
Established writers share their writing practices
Amy Bloom
Finding the precise, evocative details that imply her charcters' world is her main goal.
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