Our weekly roundup of links we hope you’ll find interesting and useful:
• Author Jennie Nash shares resources for finding details of setting and background (hint: your local librarian would love to help you!).
• We all need help with queries — and writer Matthew Rush has a great approach. He posts queries with authors commenting on their own process, and then his feedback — and then reader feedback as well in comments. You’ll find some great examples of good queries and good tips for improving yours.
• A post from Writer Beware on what cues to look for (and run from!) if you receive an “agent solicitation.”
• Calling all screenwriters: sign up for 20 days of email tips on the philosophy of great screenwriters, and share your insights with other writers on Facebook/Twitter.
• Poet and editor Robert Brewer with advice on dealing with problem editors.
• Adam Haslett talks about Stanley Fish’s must-read book How to Write a Sentence. And check out Fish’s Top 5 sentences. It’s too late to enter the context, but take a look in the comments for more sentences from readers.

And we invite you to share your favorite sentences in the comments here!

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Enjoy your weekend. Write something wonderful!

Posted by: Kelley