From Imperial Japan comes a form of poetry called Tanka. A Tanka consist of five lines following a 5-7-5-7-7 syllable pattern. Although in English we push against this frame, most English writer continue to write tanka within this frame. The problem? English syllables don’t fit quite as neatly than Japanese syllables. And so you might […]

This serialized chapter split calculator use manuscript words, chapters, timing, recaps, and cliffhanger room to create episode counts, split rows, release spans, and arc segments. Serializing mean you’re under a certain amount of pressure. You write the damn thing, turn in the final draft, look at the manuscript, and see what? What’s left is hard […]

This front matter page calculator can be used to estimate preliminary book pages and roman numeral range. It also calculates print parity blanks and how to treat ebook page prior to chapter one. Look closely at a printed piece of work and you might notice that the story doesn’t actualy start until page fifteen. The […]

Before you submit, run it through a query letter length checker like this one: https://querylettercheck.com Check the number of words, the number of paragraphs, and how well it hits their guidelines. You can also see if you’ve got enough of a pitch, bio, metadata (subject line) to make a go of it. It will help […]