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August 1, 2013
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It’s here! It’s finally here! The first...
It’s here! It’s finally here! The first finished copy of CROWN OF MIDNIGHT!
Lucky for you, we’ve still got a few galleys left. We’ll pick three people who reblog this post and follow us here on tumblr to win them!
THE PRETTY.
July 31, 2013
When you wake up not because your alarm went off or your cat is sprawled on the floor singing you his song of hunger, but because you WANT to work on your WIP.
And up until now all you’ve felt for your WIP is loathing and hatred and smoke-filled rage, days of tears and blood and nights of sweet relief from the horror of your computer, and you were beginning to think this book would be nothing but a reflection of your inner struggle and readers would feel your revulsion seeping out of every word but finally, now, this morning, you felt the glorious whisper of satisfaction brush across your cheek and you awoke to the startling yet comfortable-as-if-it-had-been-there-all-along epiphany that you are madly in love with this book, yes, and it is madly in love with you.
July 30, 2013
July 25, 2013
July 24, 2013
Writers on Wednesday: Sara Raasch
Welcome to another Writers on Wednesday! I’m thrilled to bring you an interview with Sara Raasch. I met Sara through the YA Valentines, and I’m delighted that she stopped by today to talk about h…
July 23, 2013
July 22, 2013
Susan Dennard on Showing versus Telling
We are so thrilled to have Susan Dennard on the blog today. Not only is Susan a fabulous author, but she’s also an amazing person with unmatched generosity. Recently, she judged our Pitch+250 Contest and went above and beyond in her finalist critique. She’s also mentoring our July 1st Five Pages Workshop, where again, she is going above and beyond in her notes for the writers’ workshop participants. She’s written a wonderful craft of writing post on Showing vs. Telling and included a helpful writing exercise.
Show Your Character’s Backstory, Don’t Tell It
"Show, don’t tell." I know everyone has heard that phrase a thousand times. At least a thousand times, right? And yet, though we all know we should show our story instead of tell it, ye olde maxim is WAY easier said than done.
Trust me: I still make this mistake, and I know I’m not the only author who finds myself falling into the Telling Trap. I seem to be especially guilty when I’m trying to provide backstory—and I’m even moreguilty when I’m writing a first draft.
But that’s the beauty of revisions, no? We can rip out all our telling and weave it back into the story as beautiful, seamless showing.
In this post, I want to show you how to spot telling in your WIP—and then I want to show you how to work the information back in as showing. I’m going to use a writing example, but bear with me. I tend on the side of verbosity.
So let’s say we have a story, and in it our MC is named Emily. In this scene I’m going to use for our example, Emily is in a car at nighttime. She’s with her ex-best friend, Carrie, who has somehow—despite the bad blood between them—convinced Emily to abandon the end of her school’s play rehearsal. Carrie needs to take Emily somewhere to show her something super important…
Brilliance.
