So I decided to listen to my own advice (I generally try to do this, I swear!) by revising my first page for The Last Onest (or TLO). Back in July 2010, I encouraged my readers to revise their first page. To recap, it was after I’d listened to Ally Condie speak. At the WIFYR […]
Category Archives: writing exercises
how to create a character binder or THE BINDER OF DOOM
So I’m a neurotic planner when it comes to my books. And possibly about life, but let’s disregard that for the moment. So I have this BINDER OF DOOM and it is my life. Well, the life of my TLO story (the one for Invisible is blue). It’s quite thick, and has all of the […]
how to do a basic outline
**Don’t forget about the 1st LINE CONTEST to win a query critique by Agent Mary Kole + other prizes** **UPDATE: I will be blogging about how to outline on Wednesday instead of Monday, due to the Markus Zusak book signing post.** Yes, I finally did it. I got my critique group to outline. For those […]
you can write better
I hate to admit it, but I cringe whenever I hear an author say something like: the first few pages of my published novel are exactly as I first wrote them. Seriously? At the WIFYR conference, author Ally Condie was really brave and read us two versions of the first page of her upcoming novel, […]
in which my protagonist gets mad at me: or how to enhance your writing descriptions
Snoopy has it right. Good writing is HARD! So I’m in the middle of revisions, and I realized that my characters smile too much. Especially my protagonist. And she’s not even happy somteimes. She’s just pretending to be happy for those around her. Only when I tried to fix it, it came out about like […]
