The Writer - 11.2019

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20 | The Writer • November 2019 +2:72%($*2ǰ' PARTNER CRITIQUE Employ these best practices when you don an editorial cap. %&l ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 21 Ask questions first Before you read a single word, ask the writer what stage of development she ...

22 | The Writer • November 2019 1 KEEP IT REAL... The first step in creating authentic language is to acknowledge that real peop ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 23 nals to readers that dialogue isn’t all that important in your story. That’s a bad message to se ...

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26 | The Writer • November 2019 I wasn’t thrilled to delete a favorite chap- ter from my latest book – a story about how several ...

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writermag.com • The Writer | 29 1  MAKE THAT MONEY: MAGAZINES MUST INNOVATE The late, great literary maga- zine Glimmer Train lo ...

30 | The Writer • November 2019 broad-interest successes of the past. “I’ve heard editors say they want to be the next Paris Rev ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 31 the ethics involved in that can be tricky. “For journals to make any money, we need to rely on t ...

32 | The Writer • November 2019 month. “It’s our primary source of income and has replaced the sale of print journals,” says Exe ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 33 THINKING OF SUBMITTING? Heed these four tips from literary magazine editors “Read the type of wo ...

34 | The Writer • November 2019 For the short term, Submittable will remain indispensable. For the long term – well, it’s just a ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 35 start diversifying our masthead. We have people inside making decisions who hopefully lean towar ...

36 | The Writer • November 2019 promotion, and more, Baker notes. Paying expenses is a sound argu- ment for charging fees. But . ...

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38 | The Writer • November 2019 LITERARY SPOTLIGHT BY MELISSA HART INSIDE LITERARY MAGAZINES Photo by In Her Image Photography T ...