How Many Unfinished Novels Do You Have?

This past weekend, I hit a wall with my current novel-in-progress. I’m not sure what it is, only that I lost the love of writing it. This has happened to me before. And I knew I had two choices.

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The One Thing I Don’t Give Up For My Writing

A while ago I shared this list of the things I do and do not sacrifice for my writing. Today I wanted to dig a little deeper into one of those.

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What Makes It Epic?

Two weeks ago I asked this very important question, and last week I asked this one. Today I’m asking the final question in this series…

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Writing Tip: Don’t Focus on Theme (in the first draft)

I gave away what I’m going to be talking about in my title. But this is really important, so please read on…

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What Keeps You Reading?

Last week I asked this very important question, and this week I’m asking something equally important…

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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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Writing Tip: The Myth of The “Great Idea”

The other day I was talking to someone about my book…

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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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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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