This past month I’ve been participating in Camp NaNoWrimo, working on my new project: a feminist Cinderella retelling. It’s set in the early 90s and it’s been a ton of fun to write…
The Tool that Totally Changed How I Write First Drafts
Writing is hard
"The story is always better than your ability to write it."
Robin McKinley
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Lessons learned from The Golden Compass
Beta-testing beta readers
I gave the first two chapters of my manuscript to my husband for the first time the other day. I've been working on this thing for five years, and I haven't let him look at it this entire time. I know. I might be holding it a little close…
He said/she said
Before reading On Writing by Stephen King, I had never really given much thought to dialogue attributions. But as a green writer with a first draft to edit that includes a ton of dialogue, I am hungry for advice on how to make this thing good…