Writing Tip Wednesday Scene Structure is Sexy
carriejonesbooks A lot of times we fiction writers get a little (cough) a lot obsessed with character, which makes sense, right? Characters are sexy. They’re these fake humans that we get…
Wednesday Writing Wisdom
Seven funky ways to start your novel
I’m super lucky to not only be writing my own stories, but I’m mentoring a high school student right now who is an awesome human. This week, we talked a…
How to Start Writing a Book
People ask me all the time about how to start writing a book, and I think I’m getting more emails about this than I normally do, which means – a…
Mushy Dialogue Sucks
There. I said it. Mushy dialogue sucks. It’s nothing space in your story and sometimes it’s nothing space in your life. You know what I’m talking about, right? You meet…
A Little Bit of Wisdom from a Writing For Children and Young Adults MFA Grad
Ten years ago, I was at Vermont College doing the graduate assistant thing. Everywhere people were engaging in intelligent discourse about craft and me? Um…. I began the residency by…