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Hooked! Query letters that piqued an agent's interest - Part 5 of 5
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Working with outlines
 
Start writing! Here are a dozen new prompts to get you going.
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12 new writing prompts to try!
What to know about the work-for-hire market
 
Hooked! Query letters that piqued an agent's interest - Part 2 of 5
What to know about the selection of picture-book illustrators
 
More prompts to spark your writing!
Hooked! Query letters that piqued an agent's interest - Part 1 of 5
Write productively and with a purpose
 
Paying for professional critiques
 
The role of agents
 
The market for rhyming picture books
 
Writers' Exchange winners: Favorite faux pas
Try a writing prompt!  
Finding your audience  
The book proposal package  
Idea generator
Poetry Spotlight 2
 
Excerpt from Phillip Lopate's "Against Joie de Vivre"  
Profile: Poetry Magazine
 
What do you want to write
Sweat the small stuff
More from Chang-rae Lee  
Rick Bragg on the art of storytelling  
Why horror is a writer's dream, not a nightmare  
Breathe life into literally anything  
How I write: Chang rae Lee  
Some truths about writing  
What makes a winner  
Is nighttime your best time?  
How I Write: Susan Isaacs  
Why queries get rejected
Break out of your box
The great agent hunt  
 
How I write: Mark Haddon  
Civility pays literary dividends  
 
Start packing! You can be a travel writer  
How I write: Edwidge Danticat
Ivan, Ian, Johann, Juan or John?  
 
'Buddy, can you spare $1.44?'  
 
Best questions  
Writers' exchange runners-up
 
Q and A with M.J. Rose  
Holy smokes, yiz talk funny  
 
How I write: Alexander McCall Smith  
Editor's Notes: All in the family  
MFA resources  
Self-publishing Q&A  
More on semicolons
How I write: Kimberly Kafka  
Reading choices for kids  
More from Pico Iyer  
Turn freelance setbacks into opportunities  
Where writers are in demand  
How I write: Daniel Silva
Beth's Blog: The Gotham Writers' Workshop Experience
Taking the contest plunge  
Beyond Golgotha and the Kwiki Mart  
 
Know the market: Selling your nonfiction book, Part 1
5 tips to sharpen dialogue  
How I write: William Langewiesche  
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More from Jennifer Crusie
Finding contacts in unlikely places  
How I write: Jennifer Crusie  
An African-American legacy  
Six-week plan for writing a marketable children's book
Tips for becoming a master book marketer
How I write: Nevada Barr  
Self-publishing or subsidy?  
Creating characters in poems  
How I write: Jim Lehrer  
The 5 R's of creative nonfiction  
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The conference connection
More from Jimmy Carter on writing  
 
More reader 'coinages'  
How I write: Tracy Kidder  
How to find government publications and resources  
More from Tracy Kidder  
Novelist breaks the rules by mixing genres
How I write: Christopher Paolini
Advice for the new writer
More from Allison Pearson
Novelist Le Thi Diem Thuy: Between two worlds
An expert's guide to successful self-publishing
How I write: Allison Pearson
How I write: Suzan-Lori Parks
Q & A about the FBI with writer and former agent Alicia Hilton
10 cool library maneuvers for writers
Interview with Dean Koontz: Born to write  
Sara Paretsky's risky business
Who loves you like the library?
How I write: Anthony Swofford
How I Write: Barbara Parker
Test your characters' undercover mettle  
Sara Paretsky's risky business
Poetry markets are thriving  
Writers conferences: How do you choose the best one for you?
Erik Larson: A devil of a good writer  
How I Write: Peter Robinson  
Bringing it all together
How I Write: Peter Robinson  
Interview with James McBride  
Author events let you learn from the best  
Villains readers love to hate  
How I Write: Anne Rice  
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