Friday, September 13, 2013

Unique

Read Ezekiel 31-33

Ezekiel 31:8 "The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty."

Whether we’re writing fiction or nonfiction, short pieces or books, we have a better chance of publishing if we are unique. The same old, same old will only get us rejection letters.

The tricky part is that too unique will also be rejected. If our ideas are too different, editors and agents will not be able to see a market for our work.

We will want to strike a balance between the familiar and the unique. The idea needs to be different enough to give a new slant on a subject or quirky characters or story line but familiar enough to find a readership.

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