Choosing Your Topic

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  • Andrea Dunlop on Writing "Losing the Light" - podcast

    Andrea Dunlop details her experience and insider advice as a published author who has gone through the traditional publishing journey. She was inspired to write her...
    Andrea Dunlop
    • Andrea Dunlop
  • Patty Blue Hayes On Writing Wine, Sex and Suicide - video

    Patty Blue Hayes, author and life coach, was pushed to revisit her dream to be a writer when her life took an unfortunate and sudden turn. What started as an emotional...
    Patty Blue Hayes
    • Patty Blue Hayes
  • Genre Basics - Mainstream Fiction - article

    Mainstream fiction is a generalized genre that encompasses many different types of fiction. Mainstream manuscripts are between 60-90K words. Defining what “mainstream...
    Nicole Lindenstein
    • Nicole Lindenstein
  • Genre Basics - Young Adult - article

    The Young adult genre is rapidly growing and targeted at, you guessed it: young adults. These readers can be between 10 and 17 years old. You’ll find many genres in...
    Nicole Lindenstein
    • Nicole Lindenstein
  • Genre Basics - Contemporary Fiction - article

    Contemporary fiction is, technically, any fiction of the time we are in. So, it’s everything that is not non-fiction that is currently being written. But since the category...
    Nicole Lindenstein
    • Nicole Lindenstein