In the YA urban sci-fi I’m writing there are a few fight scenes. When first writing these scenes, I started to wonder just how good they were, because there’s only so many moves your characters can make in a fight before things start getting repetitive. Recently I discovered the blog by writer Janice Hardy, and … More Writing Tip Wednesday: Tips On Writing Action Scenes by Janice Hardy.
Welcome to my very first Writing Tip Wednesday of 2014. Every fortnight I share a writing tip or link to a great post I have discovered about writing so be sure to pop in every second Wednesday to check them out. Today I would like to direct you to this post by YA author Jessica … More Writing Tip Wednesday: Jessica Spotswood on the reality of publishing.
Hi everyone, Welcome to this fortnight’s Writing Tip Wednesday. Today I have a great link to The Write Life website, to a post written by Chuck Sambuchino titled ‘The Worst Ways To Begin Your Novel: Advice From Literary Agents’. I’m having a bit of a hard time figuring out the best start to the YA … More Writing Tip Wednesday: How to not start your novel
Hey Everyone, Rejection is a given in the writing business, I mean, every writer gets rejected, and the truth is, it sucks. So for today’s writing tip I thought I’d direct you over to The League of Extraordinary Writers. In a guest post, Jay Kristoff (author of Stormdancer and Kinslayer) shares his thoughts on rejection. … More Writing Tip Wednesday: Jay Kristoff on rejection.
Sorry this is late, and regular readers you will probably notice that I’m meant to do a writerly update this week, but I decided to do a swap because I found a great resource that I just had to share. On a website called Write About Dragons you can see the complete video footage of … More Writing Tip Wednesday: Writing Tips from Brandon Sanderson.
I was reading this very interesting (and funny) post the other day by guest writer Ben. H. Winters over at Publishing Crawl all about his theory of rotating dessert. He suggests you write two books at once, and as someone who does this I would have to agree. Now I know it’s not for everyone, … More Writing Tip Wednesday: Write two books at once.
*I apologize that this post is a day late, when I went to write it last night I came down with a terrible migraine. If you’re a writer of YA then you might want to read this article from the Publishers Weekly website. Sue Corbett interviews some agents to find out what their perspectives are … More Writing Tip Wednesday: Agents on YA trends.
Do you have a New Adult manuscript ready to go? Wattpad and Harlequin are joining together to present the New Adult catagory in this year’s So You Think You Can Write? contest. All you need for now is to be on Wattpad, or to join, and upload your first chapter and 100 word description of … More Calling all writers of NA.
Sorry that this is late, I’ve been extremely busy lately and missed a few posts but I’m hoping to get back on track now. And because I’ve been extremely busy it got me thinking about how that can effect your writing. For those of us not lucky enough to have writing as our careers, writing … More (A late) Writing Tip Wednesday: Write 2 pages a day.
I came across this letter today. It is an open letter to new and would be writers from author James Smythe. I found it very encouraging and wanted to share it with you. It was very eye opening about sales figures as well. I read a lot of blog post from writers and sometimes they … More A letter to inspiring writers.
Rochelle L. Sharpe 