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6 Books I’ve Loved This Year
What are you reading this summer?
My day job is directing content and social media at a startup, which means I’m aware of all those dumb holidays that trend on Twitter on any given day, which means I know that #NationalBookLoversDay is coming up!
MK’s Book Reviews: The Rest of Us Just Live Here
I finished the latest Patrick Ness novel earlier this week (you may recall how obsessed I was with his Chaos Walking trilogy) and…
Writing Tip: The Protagonist of Your Novel Isn’t You
Writing Tip: On Characters’ Physical Descriptions
What Part Are You Good At?
I have an important question to ask you writers on this rainy (if you’re in the tri-state area) Monday…
What part are you good at?
My Favorite Female Writers
Happy International Women’s Day!
To celebrate, I’d like to pay something of an homage to my favorite female writers. The following women are everything I aspire to be as a writer. Also, from what I’ve heard, they’re pretty cool people, too.
Jennifer Niven Starting off this list with my newest fave. I’ve only read one of her books so far, and loved it, so suffice to say I’ll be reading her other stuff just as soon as I get my hands on it.
Marisa de los Santos I haven’t read her in a while—been on a YA kick for the past year or so—but she’s an absolutely gorgeous writer who you should check out. Start with this book.
Stephanie Perkins Her books are these beautifully-written, entertaining looks at young love. I talk about my love for her books here.
Maggie Stiefvater I fell in love with this series and can’t wish for the last book to come out. Also, she’s a rockstar on Tumblr.
Lauren Oliver Everything this woman writes is pure gold. And I’m pretty sure she’s like, my age.
JK Rowling Self-explanatory. Not only am I huge Harry Potter nerd but this woman continues to inspire me with everything she says and does.
Tana French Otherwise known as the writer of some of my favorite books of all time. She is, quite simply put, the most beautiful writer I’ve ever encountered. Her character studies are unparalleled. Also, she’s Irish! (I love Irish people). You can read me gushing about her here.
Any other amazing lady writers I’ve missed? Let me know!
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Getting Back Into Writing
If you’re anything like me, December is a particularly challenging time of year to maintain steady writing habits. I refer to this period as “Novel Interruptus” and I’ve long since stopped trying to fight it/feel guilty for it. After all, the reason writing gets interrupted is because I’m busy doing one of the things I said I’d never give up for anything: spending time with the people I love.
BUT.
Writing Tip: Read in Your Genre
So I’m in the process of writing my first YA fantasy novel, and something recently occurred to me…
Improve Your Writing: On Consistent Point of View
There are a lot of things that go into writing a novel. Today I’m going to focus on an important one–point of view.
One of the first decisions you need to make when starting a novel is: who is telling this story?