Last week I asked this very important question, and this week I’m asking something equally important…
The other day I was talking to someone about my book…
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…
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:
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.”
One of the things that tripped me up the most when I first tried to start writing a novel was…
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…)
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 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 […]
