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: What’s the biggest writing / querying / publishing mistake you’ve made? Oi. I’ve been writing for a loooong time which means
Kick Start Your Creative Slump!
We all have those moments where the ideas/words/brilliance don’t come. If you’re like me, these times when nothing ends up on the page mean a lot of bitchy behavior until the block passes. If you’re also like me, you like to expedite that process. The question is how? I’ve talked about this before, but that was more geared to when
Zombie World News
Zombie Thursdays is a weekly feature with guest blogger, Miranda. You can read more about her here. To be honest, I feel like a zombie today. I don’t know why… change in weather? Not enough sleep? Too much sleep? The “excitement” of having to go to work in fifty minutes? I’m really just not sure. But usually when I’m feeling
Ground Your Reader, or Why Storyboarding is Important
The Room is our generation’s Rocky Horror*. It’s at best a D-List movie with horrible stock footage and acting right out of a CCD production of Best Christmas Pageant Ever. The writing is Nemesis-worthy. Basically, if The Room was being graded for actual artistic merit, it would beyond fail. However! The Room is a great learning experience. Tommy Wiseau’s “masterpiece”
NESCBWI Conference Recap, Part II
It’s kind of hard not to get good advice when you’re at a conference for three days. Even at the crappiest of conferences, you should be able to take back one nugget of information. Since I’m an avid note-taker, I have pages of information. Unfortunately, I can’t share everything with you. But I can share a few thoughts. After reviewing