If you've written your first manuscript, sent it out to beta readers, edited ad nauseum, and finally polished it, the next step will be finding a literary agent to get your work out there. But what exactly does a literary agent do? How do you find them? First of all, here's a quick and informative … Continue reading Literary Agents – How Do They Work?
Tag: Writing Inspiration
Twilight at theoffice
"Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything really good." William Faulkner Taken at theOffice in Brentwood, CA.
A Captivating Story in Fifty Three Words
This is from a book called The Writer's Block: 786 Ideas to Jump-Start Your Imagination by Jason Rekulak. "Since 1987 the New Times in San Luis Obispo, California has sponsored an annual contest for 'Fifty-Five Fiction.' These are short stories which must be- I kid you not- fifty-five words or less. Sounds impossible, right? That's what … Continue reading A Captivating Story in Fifty Three Words
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Do you live in the LA area? Want a quiet place to work (for free)? One where you're surrounded by other likeminded professionals? Do you have a twitter account (or the ability to get one)? If you answered "Yes" to these questions, then you're in luck. You've got ONE MORE DAY to enter our Back To School … Continue reading Win a Month of Free Access to theOffice – Deadline Tomorrow!
Meditation on Ruin
by Jay Hopler It’s not the lost lover that brings us to ruin, or the barroom brawl, or the con game gone bad, or the beating Taken in the alleyway. But the lost car keys, The broken shoelace, The overcharge at the gas pump Which we broach without comment — these are the things that eat … Continue reading Meditation on Ruin
New Pictures of Our Space
Linda Abbott recently took some incredible pictures of theOffice. Have a look...
Links for Writers: Fun Stuff to Read this Week
The Electric Typewriter // It appears that someone put a lot of time into this compilation of "articles and essays by the world's best journalists and writers." A lot of good stuff to be found here. That Way We're All Writing Now by Clive Thompson // You'll see a lot tweets and status updates starting with the … Continue reading Links for Writers: Fun Stuff to Read this Week
Writing Quote of the Day
"Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader- not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon." - EL Doctorow
Writing Quote of the Day
Writing quote from Michael Haneke: "I’ve never seen good results from people trying to speak about things they don’t know firsthand. They will talk about Afghanistan, about children in Africa, but in the end they only know what they’ve seen on TV or read in the newspaper. And yet they pretend—even to themselves—that they know … Continue reading Writing Quote of the Day
Writing Quote of The Day
Writing Quote from Dave Eggers: "It’s a very strange thing, because we all think writing should be fun. That is, when I was temping through most of my twenties, wondering what it would be like to write for a living, hoping for such a life, I thought it might be pretty sweet. I thought if I … Continue reading Writing Quote of The Day
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