Every couple of months, the Donald Maass Literary Agency, which represents a roster of genre writers in science fiction, romance, mystery, and horror, posts to its website “what we’re looking for”—a handful of book ideas within a central theme. April/May suggestions center around historical figures in fiction. The story starters aren’t meant to be prescriptive [...]
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Wednesday Writing Exercise: What the Donald Maass Literary Agency Is Looking For
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Wednesday Writing Exercise: Mom?
Southern California Review contributor Laurie Stone used this clip from the New Yorker as a prompt for her students, but she, too, ended up writing a piece based on the scenario that we published in SCR.
A filler item in the New Yorker (February 27, 2006), taken from the Milford Mass. Country Gazette and titled “Constabulary [...]
