This post will go live 5 minutes before the session begins. To participate in the Q&A, post your questions below! Gail Carson Levine has written twenty-three books for children. Her best-known is Ella Enchanted, which won a Newbery honor in 1998 and was made into a motion picture in 2004. ...
How much of what you write is imagined? How much is based on memory, or - more precisely - experience? Do you know? Can you hazard a guess at the split? Is it even possible to answer the question with any hope of accuracy? This blog post explores these questions....
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Let’s be honest — we’ve all, at some point or another in our writing journey, wondered if that pass on your query or from a potential critique partner wasn’t just about the story, but maybe something to do with the writing. After all, if we weren’t insecure about our own...
Let me just say that I find it hilarious that I’m writing about this subject. Developing a strong character used to absolutely terrify me. It seemed horribly intimidating. I’d see picture book series and wonder how writers could come up with multiple stories for one character. I was a thirty-two-page-one-book-only...
For this workshop, we’ll be talking about how to find your novel’s opening--one of the hardest parts of the process, if you ask me. I’ll do short talks, then release you to do writing exercises. If you want to share what you wrote, you can post them in the...
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PLEASE TRY RELOADING THE PAGE - OUR TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES HAVE BEEN FIXED AND THE VIDEO SHOULD WORK NOW! To participate in the Q&A, post your questions below! Amber is the co-founder of Skylark Literary, a new and boutique literary agency based in the UK which specializes in the very...