Have you ever wondered what an editor, agent, publisher really wants in a story? Do you have story ideas that seem great in the moment, but become just like everyone else’s? Is your story a cliche?
If so, you’re not alone. We all come up with a plot that has conflict. Conflict has only three ways of being: self with universe, self with other, self with self. How many variations can there be?
Lots of agents are blogging these days. And some publishers are, too. Here are a couple of blogs / sites where you can read what the folks who do the buying and selling want – and don’t want.
Nathan Bransford, literary agent, Curtis Brown Ltd. http://nathanbransford.blogspot.com/
Strange Horizons , weekly online magazine http://www.strangehorizons.com/guidelines/fiction-common.shtml
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