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.”
If you follow me on Twitter at all you may have seen me freaking out about this book a bit lately…
I read this book, co-authored by John Green and David Levithan, a little while ago, and…
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…
I’ve written about how much I love Lauren Oliver‘s writing before, so it was no surprise that I loved this book…
So after a 3-star book streak, I finally read a book I adored…
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 […]
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…
