Surprise: You’re Writing a Series!
I never thought I’d write a series. After my first book came out I had a few people ask, “Will you write a sequel?” My look of horror might’ve been puzzling. My “God, no!” was less ambiguous. Don’t get me…
Category: Genre
Friday Feast: Writing Race into Fiction, Characters Who “Just Happen to Be Gay,” “Edgy” Scenes, and Hong Kong’s MFA Crackdown
It’d be so lovely to just write write write and not worry about reader perceptions. You can! That’s the first draft (and the fourth and fifth and so on, if you’re me). And while no one can tell you how…
Friday Feast: Books for Fans of Science Fiction, Unrequited Love, Horror, and Genre Benders
After a writers’ conference, I want to rush off and write everything before I lose the lessons and momentum. But I also want to consume the books I’ve purchased and heard attendees and instructors refer to in conference sessions. With…
Friday Feast: #VeryRealisticYA and Helpful Charts for Writers, Including One with Cocktails
I thought it might be #VeryUnRealisticYA of me to put young adult fiction links in the same post as a chart of fancy cocktails from literary fiction. Do teens drink and read Henry James? Dubious, though I am sure there are outliers. So instead…
Friday Feast: Writing Conferences, Sleep Habits, Wes Anderson, and “Appropriate” Literature
Conference anxiety. Censorship. Coming of age. This post could have also been named Feelings. All of the links highlighted this week have that certain something that provide people with a spectrum of feels.
How the Pied Piper of Tucson Led Me to My Story
Some writers keep returning to the story they have to tell until they get it right. When I started my YA novel Half in Love with Death (Merit Press – December 2015), I’d already abandoned two novels about a young…