The Writer's Workout

Picture this: you’re in the querying trenches. You have been stressing over your query letter and sample pages, revising and tweaking until you achieve the desired tone, word count, and hook in the hopes of landing an agent. Then you finally hit “send.” You spend the next few hours, days, weeks obsessively checking your email and overanalyzing the lack of response as both a positive and a negative. The whole process is grueling. A Different Struggle Even so, querying hits dif

One question that always seems to come up when writers get together to talk is the terrifying business of submissions, and how best to...