When To Open Your Story Up To Critique

As always, writing advice is subjective;  do what works for you. But early on in my writing endeavors, I read a book that changed the way I thought about drafting and receiving critical feedback on my work, so I wanted to share my method…

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MK’s Book Reviews: The Boy Most Likely To

I recently read the sequel to this book, and…

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MK’s Book Reviews: Daughter of Smoke and Bone 

So I recently read this amazing book…

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Friday Things

Hey, I managed to do a blog post today!

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What Draws You Into A Story?

I haven’t decided what my next Learning from the Masters lesson will be. So for today, I’m asking a very important question…

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Learning from the Masters: Kissing Scenes

I wrote about this before, but I recently read the BEST kissing scene I had to add to my list…

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MK’s Book Reviews: All The Bright Places

Apologies for the longer-than-expected hiatus! It’s been quite the busy week and a half. Changes are coming my way. Which is terrifying, but good. I hope. More on that later. Today I want to talk about the reason I bawled myself to sleep last night. Unsurprisingly, it was because of a book. You may have heard […]

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

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…

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Writing Tip: “Three Great Scenes, No Bad Ones”

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:

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Friday Things

Hello Friday, it’s wonderful to see you.

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