![]() via Novel Rocket And to continue mining TV shows, Lessons from Downton Abbey. This is about changing the way you view subplots forever and Grey’s Anatomy. via Mystery Writing is Murderĭone to Death: A New Trope questions how much original plots matter. Here’s something with the provocative title of Writing Multiple Books in a Year– It Doesn’t Take as Much as You Think. We’ll start this off with a good old-fashioned “how to beat writers block.” Creativity Blocked? Here’s the Solution. Lessons from the Strictly Objective Critique Partner. via Go Teen Writers – not just for teens. via Author, Jody HedlundĨ Tips For Getting What You Want (out of industry professionals). Pretend you don’t need 3 Ways to Keep Social Media from Taking Over Your Writing Time. Ready to Submit? Think Again is a very comprehensive checklist to go through before, well, submitting. Why Finish Books? Yes, this is every bit as odd-ball as it sounds. Luke Alistar offers sobering thoughts for writers on The Power You Hold. Read the flash fiction Monitoring System.Īlison Cherry runs a pretty entertaining blog as a rule, but you know The Things We Do For Research will be a real gem just from the title. I found Erin Morgenstern’s Flax Golden Tale wonderful this week. Maggie Steifvater with lotsa From Rough to Final links! There is so much to learn from watching the pros edit. The eye-popper of the week award goes to A Follow’s Not a Book Sale (Though It’s Really Nice), which asks “Does social media affect sales AT ALL?” via The Intern (As if every single one of these links isn’t noteworthy. □ If this isn’t too painful in the creation, you will get more. It will also be too much coolness to handle in its entirety, so just scroll through and open whatever catches your eye. This will be too long because I follow too many blogs. I present to you my attempt at a weekly round up, that is, a conglomeration of good posts from the last week. How’d you do that?) As a unique trait, every couple chapters there are very beautiful illustrations of a character. I didn’t notice a single grammar or spelling error, when I normally catch a neat handful in the most well-edited self-published works. (I’m noticing a pattern of self-pubbed novellas being of better quality than self-published novels.) Niche genre, niche length, well-edited. While some twists I predicted, many more I did not.Ĭurrently, Red Rain is only the third self-published work I think was worth the read. I was fully invested in the main character and her goals and problems.Īnd the story! I feel like giving much beyond the blurb will be a spoiler, but I found it unique and interesting. Aubrey’s ability to make even minor characters feel rounded and real. I must feel with the characters, be there inside their heads. Pacing contributes heavily to an un-put-downable factor, but pace alone does not keep me stuck within a book’s pages. I finished the rest the next morning, made a gushing note about it on GoodReads, then went to those dishes. I put it down half-way through only because I’m attempting to break a habit of staying up past 10 o’clock, and it was 11. I think I may have honestly told myself, “I’ll just start this new book late at night and then I’ll get to the dishes.” During the second chapter I realized there was no way I was going to put it down soon, despite that fact the dishes were waiting. Within the first chapter I was impressed by the pace. ![]() But when a search for her deceased brother’s Bible leads her into a hallway that isn’t supposed to exist, Philadelphia is faced with a question she doesn’t want to answer – the choice between returning to Earth or destroying it. When a benevolent official allows her to accompany her father, Philadelphia knows she must keep her head down or be sent back to Earth. 17-year-old Philadelphia must stay on Earth in the care of complete strangers while her father is sent against his will to Mars. Government regulations said they had no choice. ![]()
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