How to Find a Literary Agent

As a serious writer, you will most likely prefer the route of having work published by notable sources to gain experience and build a portfolio. The best way to do this is by finding a literary agent who believes in your writing and has the skills to help you improve it. However, finding a literary agent can be difficult if you don't know where to search, so there are tips to getting work published and finding an agent.

Here are the best tips for budding writers:

A**holeology

Book: A**hology: The Science behind getting your way---and getting away with it.

By: Steven B. Green, Dennis Lavalle, and Chris Illuminati

Self help books to lift self esteem and gain confidence, respect are highly popular in today's society due to the face paced changes of what is considered appropriate to gain respect.

A**hology is a self help book aimed towards individuals who have difficulty gaining respect and the things they want in life, sure, to be an a##hole requires conformity, but it also requires commitment, a commitment to be the most effective a##hole one can be. 

If this sounds like your cup of tea, than you NEED this book.

Faking It

Book: Faking It: How to Seem Like a Better Person Without Actually Improving Yourself

By:  the writers of CollegeHumor.com: Amir Blumenfeld, Neel Shah, Ethan Trex

 

Plot/Summary: Faking It is a self help book on how to appear ambitious and diverse in social matters so that a person who is not well informed on an issue does not appear to be uneducated. 

TOPICS OF ADVICE: 

The notion of buying a lot of travel gear and making up adventures to seem cultured, since traveling can be really expensive --- Funny, but BAD ADVICE

The advice on company etiquette such as never "replying to all" and refraining from emoticons in email. The examples on what not to do are also definitely accurate, so despite a lot of the bad advice it has, there is a lot of accurate information that a reader can take seriously and apply to their own experiences. --- FUNNY, and ACCURATE

But.... the advice of downing a few shots of hard liquor to relax before a company presentation--- once again, BAD ADVICE

What is Playwriting?

Playwriting is a type of writing that is written for the purpose of theater and stage production. Play writing consists of acts, scenes, and stage direction that set the tone and settings for characters in a play.

Plays are a form of art that has been around for centuries. The Greeks considered plays to be either tragedies or comedies---polar opposite emotions generally achieved in writing. Plays were basically written works put onto the stage where the audience already knew the plot and outline of the play, but wanted to see how different interpretations of a story would be.