I haven’t decided what my next Learning from the Masters lesson will be. So for today, I’m asking a very important question…
The other day I was talking to someone about my book…
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…
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:
One of the things that tripped me up the most when I first tried to start writing a novel was…
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.
Time for another example of how the brilliant authors who came before me introduced readers to a setting without making it boring…
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 […]
So I’ve talked some about my own personal NaNoWriMo–attempting to write a first draft in three months, instead of one–and also about how I’m just a wee bit behind. (More specifically: my total word count is at about a third of what it should be.) But I don’t feel like a failure, because after 2+ […]
So I’m in the process of writing my first YA fantasy novel, and something recently occurred to me…
