MK’s Book Reviews: Panic

I’ve written about how much I love Lauren Oliver‘s writing before, so it was no surprise that I loved this book…

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The One Thing You Need to Keep Readers Reading

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 […]

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Closer to the Mountain

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…

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Friday Things

The first week in January is always an odd one.

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Learning From The Masters: Setting the Scene

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 […]

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Wanderlusty Wednesday: The Pros and Cons of Traveling Off-Season

The reason people like to travel in warm weather is obvious. But I don’t always like to do this, and here’s why…

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MK’s Book Reviews: The Girl of Fire and Thorns

So after a 3-star book streak, I finally read a book I adored…

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Writing Tip: Setting The Scene

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.”

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My Year in Review

As my cousin likes to put it, “New Year’s is a fake holiday. It’s just another day.” Which is true, to be fair. But even so, I always welcome the start of a new year. And I like to look back on how far I’ve come…

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My Year in Books

The 3 stars I wasn’t sure I was going to do this post because compared to last year, I was woefully inadequate–I only read 50 books this year compared to last year’s 60! I chalk that mainly up to this book and this one, each of which took me over a month to get through, thus leaving […]

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