Book Review: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

I read this book, co-authored by John Green and David Levithan, a little while ago, and…

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Writing Tip: Read in Your Genre, BUT…

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.

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Closer to The Mountain

Just a quick post to see how I moved myself closer to the mountain this week (this concept explained last week in case you missed it)…

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Friday Things

This week. I just can’t.

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Learning From The Masters: Setting the Scene

Time for another example of how the brilliant authors who came before me introduced readers to a setting without making it boring…

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In The Spirit of “Why Not” Travel…

I got an email last week from my friend saying they were heading to Grenada for her husband’s birthday in a month. And would we like to come?

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MK’s Book Reviews: Panic

I’ve written about how much I love Lauren Oliver‘s writing before, so it was no surprise that I loved this book…

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The One Thing You Need to Keep Readers Reading

I was writing a scene in my current manuscript–and I was getting bored. This was not good. If I, the writer, was bored writing this scene–what are the readers going to think? Boredom is definitely not the emotion you want your readers to feel. So I looked back on the scene I was writing and […]

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Closer to the Mountain

Here’s my take on the New Year’s Resolution thing. I saw a brilliant idea somewhere, and I wish I could remember where so I could give the author credit…

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Friday Things

The first week in January is always an odd one.

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