There’s a good reason Creative Byline requires writers to include an outline as part of the submission package. While we were in the development stage of Creative Byline, editors told us they would prefer to know the manuscript is completed, but because a chapter-by-chapter outline shows the writer has thought through the entire story, an [...]
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Why is an outline required for novels?
March 5, 2008 – 12:53 pm
By creativebyline
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Also posted in About, Author reference, FAQs for authors, Uncategorized
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An author weighs in
January 5, 2008 – 3:21 pm
We spent several years researching the submissions problem, and then we built the best manuscript submission system we knew how. Now we’re eager to know how we did–and people are telling us. We don’t mind constructive criticism (that’s one way we’ll know how to make it better) but we also don’t mind when clients take the time to tell us we got it right.
Here’s [...]
Why the manuscript submission process is tough on everyone—go ahead and vent
October 3, 2007 – 12:05 am
The submission process is every writer’s favorite whipping boy. Writers complain about having to wait six to 12 months for a response to their submissions, and when a response finally does arrive, it rarely contains any feedback about how to make the manuscript stronger. Furthermore, writers are frustrated by the lack of access as more [...]
