Skip to content One week from today will be NaNoWriMo and I completed my preparation last night. My plotcards are written and organized. My characters and settings are in decent shape. By decent I mean enough has been determined to crank out a first draft. That’s the key with character and setting: you have to have enough to … Read more
Or in Alicia’s case, everyone loves a bad boy (as we learned from her favorite cliches)! Every Wednesday, YA Highway asks their readership a simple question to answer on your blog. Once you answer, you link your blog in the comments for other readers to hop on board. This is Road Trip Wednesday. Today’s Topic-–Who … Read more
Zombie Thursdays is a weekly feature with guest blogger, Miranda. You can read more about her here. Last week’s topic was essentially zombie smut (if you’re over 18, feel free to go back and read it here). One of the questions that seemed to emerge in the comments was, “how can you pull off zombie … Read more
Every Wednesday, YA Highway asks their readership a simple question to answer on your blog. Once you answer, you link your blog in the comments for other readers to hop on board. This is Road Trip Wednesday. Today’s question: What are your favorite literary cliches? The 9-5 job is (again) kicking my ass, so I … Read more
Now with television references! As a participant of The Great Blogging Experiment (you should read the experiment name in a loud announcer voice), I’m supposed to talk about creating compelling characters. The most important thing to remember is that your characters can’t be one dimensional. They all need to have some depth that helps them … Read more