What Draws You Into A Story?

I haven’t decided what my next Learning from the Masters lesson will be. So for today, I’m asking a very important question…

Read More

MK’s Book Reviews: The Ocean at the End of the Lane

I read Neil Gaiman’s latest oeuvre this week, and I’m here to tell you what I thought…

Read More

Writing Tip: The Myth of The “Great Idea”

The other day I was talking to someone about my book…

Read More

Friday Things

Happy Friday!

Read More

Learning from the Masters: Kissing Scenes

I wrote about this before, but I recently read the BEST kissing scene I had to add to my list…

Read More

MK’s Book Reviews: All The Bright Places

Apologies for the longer-than-expected hiatus! It’s been quite the busy week and a half. Changes are coming my way. Which is terrifying, but good. I hope. More on that later. Today I want to talk about the reason I bawled myself to sleep last night. Unsurprisingly, it was because of a book. You may have heard […]

Read More

Friday Things

Happy Friday!

Read More

Learning from the Masters: The (Sort-of) Meet-Cute

As I explained last week, I’m looking for examples of meet-cutes in which the two parties concerned already know each other. There actually aren’t a ton of those out there in YA, or so I’ve found. Yet I do have one for today, an example from the trilogy I’m currently obsessed with…

Read More

Wanderlusty Wednesday: What To Do When You Get Pickpocketed

So! Since I’m not going anywhere anytime soon, I thought I’d use my Wanderlusty Wednesdays to talk about some of the things I’ve learned on my travels over the years. First up: what to do when you get pickpocketed.

Read More

Writing Tip: “Three Great Scenes, No Bad Ones”

So as I’m slogging through my current work-in-progress, there are a lot of problems I’m encountering. One of them is this:

Read More