Friday Things

Happy Friday!

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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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Wanderlusty Wednesday: What To Do When You Get Pickpocketed

So! Since I’m not going anywhere anytime soon, I thought I’d use my Wanderlusty Wednesdays to talk about some of the things I’ve learned on my travels over the years. First up: what to do when you get pickpocketed.

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

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.”

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Wanderlusty Wednesday: A Travel Dilemma

Please help me make a decision!

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MK’s Book Reviews: Shadow and Bone

If you follow me on Twitter at all you may have seen me freaking out about this book a bit lately…

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Writing Tip: Do What Works For You

One of the things that tripped me up the most when I first tried to start writing a novel was…

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Learning From The Masters: Setting the Scene

Another example of a good descriptive paragraph, this time from this awesome book which was one of the ones I couldn’t put down last year (though I gave the entire series mixed reviews…)

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