by Michelle | Apr 4, 2016 | agenty stuff, craft, I like, MSWL, querying, reading, recent, storytelling, writing
Image above created by Stefano Vitale for Broadway musical production of Like Water for Chocolate. This is the fifth in a five-part series on Magical Realism. If you haven’t read the previous posts, I recommend starting with Part 1: What Is Magical Realism? “When you...
by Michelle | Sep 29, 2015 | I like, MSWL, reading, recent, storytelling, writing
This is fourth in a five-part series on Magical Realism. If you haven’t read Part 1: What Is Magical Realism?, I’d recommend starting there. “Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can’t hold on...
by Michelle | Sep 29, 2015 | agenty stuff, craft, I like, MSWL, querying, recent, storytelling, writing
This is the third in a five-part series on Magical Realism. If you haven’t read the first two, I recommend starting with Part 1: What Is Magical Realism? “I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn’t an unformed and gelatinous...
by Michelle | Sep 1, 2015 | agenty stuff, authors, conferences, I like, nitty gritty, querying, recent
Last week on Twitter, some agents got to talking about pitch sessions at writing conferences. It was a good discussion with responses that pretty much echoed the others: While we love attending conferences and meeting writers, pitch sessions themselves are ineffective...
by Michelle | Aug 4, 2015 | agenty stuff, not for me, querying, reading, recent, storytelling, writing
This is second in a five-part series on Magical Realism. If you haven’t read Part 1: What Is Magical Realism?, I’d recommend starting there. “Eddie had come to understand that what a man saw and what actually existed in the natural world often were...
