Category Archives: Tips on getting published

Time is hard to come by

A lot of novelists who never complete a manuscript and remain unpublished go by the old reliable excuse that time is so hard to come by. Here’s a little revelation for you: time is always hard to come by, even for published authors. The biggest difference between being published and not being published is finishing …

June 15, 2009 – 8:27 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in Tips on getting published | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Appealing to market needs

Like purchasing discount blinds instead of the ones you really wanted, sometimes as a writing you have to give someone what they are looking for, instead of what turns you on, to secure a sale. Fortunately, some agents and editors are willing to let you know what they are looking for. For example, there is …

March 23, 2009 – 1:18 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in Tips on getting published | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Reading is key for any genre

Good novels deserve a better place in the life of a writer than as decoration on the ol’ TV stand. Too often, young writers will say they do not want to read that many books, especially those in the style the wish to write in. The trouble is, just the opposite is true; to become …

November 30, 2008 – 11:11 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in Tips on getting published | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Settings are key

One of the things that has been driven home to me by reading the novels of Charlaine Harris is how important setting is to the success of a novel. It is the uniquess of Harris’ Bonne Temps, Louisiana, setting for her Sookie Stackhouse novels that helps to make her vampire-centric mysteries uniqe from Laurel K. …

October 6, 2008 – 2:37 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in Tips on getting published, writing | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Finding a publisher

Jobs in retail are far easier to find than a publishing contract or an editor willing to give you the time of day; however, guess which is more rewarding for a person with a creative bent? I’ll give you a hint: it doesn’t involve hawking Nikes to grandmas. Now that I’m rolling on a novel …

September 15, 2008 – 10:31 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in Tips on getting published | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Blogging’s a great tool

Blogs are a great tool for aspiring writers. It doesn’t cost much and with the correct digital signage, you can attract an instant audience. And it kind of takes the place of journaling in the practice of writing every day. That’s kind of what I like about it. I was never big into journals and …

April 20, 2008 – 10:21 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in Tips on getting published, writing | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Avoiding distractions

It’s always tempting to get distracted from writing. For example, to combat the coming switch from analog to digital, my wife and I took advantage of a pricing special and made the switch t DirecTV. The package we bought includes a 100-hour DVR with the ability to either watch or record up to three programs …

April 13, 2008 – 1:29 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in Tips on getting published | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Less glamorous writing opportunities

Some writers just don’t recognize or appreciate the opportunities to write that life lays before them. While they dream of writing the great American novel, they’re unwilling to put pen to paper for some ad copy at their local public television station or help a friend running for a local office craft a speech on …

March 24, 2008 – 2:10 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in Tips on getting published | Tagged , , , | Comments (2)

Many types of writing bear many fruits

Sometimes I think a nice long vacation to a completely different area, say Branson resorts or a biblical tour of Israel, would be a great way to charge up the ol’ creative batteries. But then, time away is often time away from writing as well. And writing is what writers do, if they’re to be …

March 24, 2008 – 2:02 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in Tips on getting published | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

How to get published advice: Jump at every chance to write!

My last major point on how to get published our produced is based on the simple dictum that writers write. (Unless, of course, they live in Hollywood; then writers either write or strike.) But that’s the exception to the rule. So forget about the well-paid Hollywood types who live in condo hotels. This is advice …

January 8, 2008 – 11:09 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in Tips on getting published | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

How to get published advice: Avoid self-publishing!

Some inexperienced writers are so eager to get out of their baby cribs that they often lose patience with the “submit, wait, get rejected” cycle that so often precedes an acceptance letter, that they turn instead to some of the most insidious forms of getting your work in print: self-publishing. Well, all I can say …

January 8, 2008 – 10:48 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in Tips on getting published | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

How to get published advice: Electronic submissions

Some people can find help for improving as writers in college; others can’t handle that tuition wise and need to look more in the direction of local writers groups, many of which have free meetings to meet and critique each other’s work. But eventually you need to grow beyond that and submit your work to …

January 8, 2008 – 10:31 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in Tips on getting published | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)