I’ve been wanting to write a post about genre bias for a long time, but I honestly haven’t been sure of what approach to take. After all, bias is inherent in the reading experience. It is every reader’s prerogative to choose the books that interest them and avoid the ones that don’t, and genre frequently […]
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When I was a little girl, I mostly stuck to reading series because I was lazy. Searching the whole library for new books was far too intimidating, and sticking with a cast of characters I loved promised literary satisfaction with no work involved. As an adult, slogging my way through ten or twelve books with
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Much as I hate to admit it, my progress has been slow this past week. I rewrote and restructured the first three chapters of Facing the Music in less than a week, but by chapter four I was stuck. Lately, I’ve been having a lot of trouble with not caving to the Inner Editor voice
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The way my life has been these past few weeks, I could either turn this into a revision-centered post or a life advice post. Also because of the way my life has been these past few weeks, I think I’m going to talk about both. I have this terrible habit of constantly biting off more
This is going to be a kind of short update, because I haven’t actually spent a lot of time working on my MS in the last week. Meeting my April goal had the strange effect of derailing my productivity, and I’ve been trying to get back on track ever since. In the past couple days,
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I heavily touted the YA Buccaneers Spring Writing Bootcamp last year, so it shouldn’t come as much surprise that I’m once again participating. Though this is technically the second boot camp check-in, it’s the first time I’ve posted a progress report since the challenge began. My goals for this year were very simple, and more
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Well, if not perfect, then at least progress. Faster, easier, smoother progress. That’s what I’m hoping for anyway. I’ve started three different drafts of the story I refer to only as Amnesia Conspiracy on this blog. Each one failed for different reasons. Draft #1 had compelling character voices, but lacked any kind of plot. Draft
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It has been a pathetically long time since I’ve talked about my own writing on this blog. I’m always up for discussing books that I loved or stories that resonated with me, but I don’t tend to stay mum about my own work for months on end. I like to talk about what I’m writing,
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Here’s the final part of my trilogy wrap-up, at least for now. Who knows? If/when I read more awesome trilogies–or just plain series–in the coming months, maybe I’ll expand upon this series. 1. The Lynburn Legacy Trilogy: Unspoken, Untold, and Unmade by Sarah Rees Brennan. Best imaginary friends-turned real life maybe more than friends. A
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I blogged last week about some of the best trilogies that I’ve finished in the past year or so. If that list hadn’t been longer than I expected, I would’ve kept all of the awesome contained in the original post. 😉 Instead, I’ll be giving you part two of the “bible” separately, so that I
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