Tag: Cliches

Tips From the Slush Pile: Known Mythologies You’ve created a beautiful new world with a gorgeous magic system and deep characters that are gonna make your readers *feel all the things* with their struggles. But in the process of immersing your reader in this fantastic world, you gave your characters the names of Greek gods […]

Tips From The Slush Pile! (The slush is open, so you had to know this was coming…) I’ve been told I include too many negative examples in my tips. Today, I’m taking a cliched opening (that I’ve already seen several times this week) and I’m gonna tell ya how to make it *not* cliche. Cliche: […]

Tips from the Slush Pile! (aren’t you excited?) So I get to tag all new submissions with their genre, make sure the files open correctly, basic housekeeping stuff. We opened our slush pile for one week and received 186 submissions so I had my work cut out for me. About a third of the way in, […]