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

In my current manuscript, there are many things I’m struggling with. (More on some of those other things here.) One of them is when my protagonist first meets the boy who will eventually become a love interest. In movies, known as the “meet-cute.”

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Wanderlusty Wednesday: A Travel Dilemma

Please help me make a decision!

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MK’s Book Reviews: Shadow and Bone

If you follow me on Twitter at all you may have seen me freaking out about this book a bit lately…

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Writing Tip: Do What Works For You

One of the things that tripped me up the most when I first tried to start writing a novel was…

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Learning From The Masters: Setting the Scene

Another example of a good descriptive paragraph, this time from this awesome book which was one of the ones I couldn’t put down last year (though I gave the entire series mixed reviews…)

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Book Review: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

I read this book, co-authored by John Green and David Levithan, a little while ago, and…

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Writing Tip: Read in Your Genre, BUT…

I wrote about one of the most important writing tips of all a little while ago: the importance of reading in the genre you’re writing in. But I forgot one big caveat of this.

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Closer to The Mountain

Just a quick post to see how I moved myself closer to the mountain this week (this concept explained last week in case you missed it)…

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Friday Things

This week. I just can’t.

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Learning From The Masters: Setting the Scene

Time for another example of how the brilliant authors who came before me introduced readers to a setting without making it boring…

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