Time for another example of how the brilliant authors who came before me introduced readers to a setting without making it boring…
I got an email last week from my friend saying they were heading to Grenada for her husband’s birthday in a month. And would we like to come?
I’ve written about how much I love Lauren Oliver‘s writing before, so it was no surprise that I loved this book…
I was writing a scene in my current manuscript–and I was getting bored. This was not good. If I, the writer, was bored writing this scene–what are the readers going to think? Boredom is definitely not the emotion you want your readers to feel. So I looked back on the scene I was writing and […]
Here’s my take on the New Year’s Resolution thing. I saw a brilliant idea somewhere, and I wish I could remember where so I could give the author credit…
The first week in January is always an odd one.
On Monday I discussed the struggles of toeing the line between too much description and not enough. And on Twitter I’ve been tweeting about my frustrations in trying to accurately describe the massive castle my story takes place in without bogging my writing down with too much detail. So today I decided to see how […]
The reason people like to travel in warm weather is obvious. But I don’t always like to do this, and here’s why…
So after a 3-star book streak, I finally read a book I adored…
I’m at the point in my first draft where my heroine has moved from her small town into the grand castle, and I’m faced with the age-old writer problem we like to call “setting the scene.”
