What Do Readers Want and the Kentucky Meat Shower Incident
carriejonesbooks Readers want questions that they’ll get answers to. They want to be hooked along. They want to unwrap the answer the way people unwrap a birthday present. That’s what Robert…
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The Elements of Storytelling: The Atomic Bomb Test
Author, podcaster and professor Robert Prince has this thing he does when he watches a movie: the Atomic Bomb test. “After I’ve watched about 20 minutes of the film I…
Five Quick Ways To Get Story Ideas
Brainstorming . . . Even the word sounds a little creepy. Like there is a storm inside your brain. It sounds… It sounds sort of violent and hazardous and windy.…
Setting Is SO FREAKING Important
Setting is where your story happens. It’s the time period. It’s the physical place. You can have more than one setting. There. That’s the definition. We’re all good, right? Wrong.…
Why Are Publishing Imprints Closing?
Algonquin Young Readers Will End in September The traditional book publishing world is a bit like the wild west if the cowboys wore pink-framed eyeglasses and could quote Derrida. People…