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Showing posts 61 to 70 labeled Writing in General (77 total)

Tips for Writing Descriptions (March 15, 2014)

Here are some tips for writing descriptions that I wish someone had given me before I wasted five manuscripts figuring them out. More »

Fifty Shades and Sushi (March 7, 2014)

I've seen writers, agents, and critics bend over backwards to try to figure out why the Fifty Shades of Grey books are so popular. There must be some reason, they insist, that millions of people love it so much. More »

What I Learned from Bianca Goes to NYC (February 26, 2014)

I was interested enough in Bianca Goes to NYC to pay for it—yes, pay for it—instead of waiting on the holds list of my local library as usual. And I liked it. I really did. But I'm disappointed because I could have loved it with a few rewrites. It was so, so close to being great, but it settled for okay. More »

Things That Make Me Want to Write (February 10, 2014)

What is a girl with grand aspirations of mass market publication to do when cooped in for an unexpected five-day weekend? Write, of course! At least, that's what I'd like to say. But sometimes, even when you have all the free time in the world, you just can't get into the groove. More »

Writing for Young People (February 7, 2014)

As I've been outlining, I've been thinking about the differences between writing for adults vs. young people, and about the differences in my interpretation of media as a child vs. now. More »

BS Writing Advice: Ideals vs. Reality (December 15, 2013)

Here are some common pieces of advice that writers love to pass around because they support warm and fuzzy artistic ideals, and not because they're true. More »

Two Signs of Faux Conflicts (November 27, 2013)

We all know that conflict is the basis of story. Right? Right. Without conflict, a plot is just a flat series of events. With conflict, a plot is a meaningful series of events constituting rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. A story without conflict is boring. Many would say it isn't a story at all. More »

Tragedy: The Backbone of Comedy (October 23, 2013)

In eighth grade English, we sampled Shakespeare by reading Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream. I remember exactly two lessons from the semester. More »

Interpreting Surveys (August 7, 2013)

Yesterday morning, when I accessed my reading list of blogs for the first time in weeks, I found a bit of hubbub around a survey performed by Marie Force, a bestselling romance author. She surveyed 2,951 readers about what influences them to buy books. At first glance, the results seem to be encouraging to self-publishers. More »

Writing Novels Like Screenplays (April 29, 2013)

Yesterday I discovered that my local library subscribes to eBooks through Indiana Digital Media, which is powered through Overdrive. I went to town browsing all of the books I normally wouldn't look twice at if I had to pay for them through Amazon: horror novels, paperback romances, sci-fi and thrillers. More »