We asked you to send in a “query letter you’d love to send — but never would.” As promised, here are our top picks. Now it’s up to you: please vote on your favorite by commenting here or e-mailing Linda at lindaformichelli@gmail.com. The winner will receive a signed copy of The Renegade Writer’s Query Letters …
What could be more motivating than an e-mail from your past self reminding you of your writing goals and dreams? FutureMe is a free service that lets you write an e-mail to yourself that will be sent on the date you select, from 30 days to 30 years into the future. Remind yourself of where …
Aug 17, 2006 Cool tools
One of my editors just told me about a pet peeve that many of us commit every few seconds: She hates it when writers insert two spaces after periods. The “two spaces” rule is a holdover from the days before proportionally-spaced fonts, but many of us are total squares and dutifully but misguidedly stick two …
Aug 15, 2006 Advice
If you’re a writer, downloading and deleting spam can eat up precious minutes out of your day and disrupt your writing groove. If you’re a writer, you probably use e-mail to find sources and post to writers’ discussion groups — hence more spam. You see the problem.
Here’s quick and easy way to can the spam, …
Aug 13, 2006 Advice, Cool tools, Organization
August 15 is the deadline for the world-famous, exciting “Query Letter You’d Love to Send” contest. Write the query letter you’d love to write but would never send — for example, a query for Dog Fancy about 10 ways cats rock out over dogs, or a query for Ms. magazine on how to make your …
Aug 10, 2006 Contests
