Fiction – Sarah Long Writes

An Ex-Pat American Visiting Home After Four Years Abroad

I didn’t set foot in the United States for four years. Cue the culture shock.
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7 Things To Do After Your Story Gets Rejected

Trust me, I’m a pro at rejection.
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5 Fun Ways To Figure Out Your Book’s Genre

It doesn’t have to be painful. Ah, the dreaded question: What genre is your story? When you think about it, genre is a bit evil. You’ve spent months – or years – wrangling words into a coherent manuscript. It has elements of so many ideas, but after all of the work and soul you’ve put […]
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I Researched How To Hack Readers’ Brains Into Loving My Stories

Here’s What I Learned: Five complete fiction manuscripts. Eight years. Hundreds of rejections. Zero offers of representation. Saying I was frustrated with my journey to authorship is an understatement. Worse was that agents and publishers gave the same feedback, whether in response to a query or the full manuscript: “We don’t feel like it’s a […]
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