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What We Learned: Anatomy of an Opening

May 15, 2022

Last week we read submissions for Rakehell, our sibling mag of swashbuckling adventure fiction. We’ll have more to say about the submission round soon, but right now we want to talk about story openings. Specifically, let’s talk about how to deliver backstory in the beginning of your piece. This is something we saw a lot … More What We Learned: Anatomy of an Opening

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Nuts & Bolts, Part 1: Prose Mechanics

April 29, 2022

Way back in March we discussed reasons stories were rejected by Wyngraf. The number one cause of rejections was what we call “nuts & bolts”—the essential mechanics of prose writing and storytelling. Nuts & bolts rejections walk a fine line. We took some pieces that required essentially zero editing, but we also took some that … More Nuts & Bolts, Part 1: Prose Mechanics

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