I have been seeing a lot of chatter on various writing loops lately about Point of View and picking the right one for a scene. Unfortunatly a lot of the chatter involves criticizing contest judges and editors who just don\’t understand that just because a writer changes POVs inside a chapter or scene it isn\’t head-hopping […]
My first YA novel, Pull My String, details the story of a 17-year-old boy in Chicago\’s inner city as he tries to separate himself from the history of violence in his family and falls in love with a girl who thinks her only value is sex. Starting today I\’m working on a second. I didn\’t
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Today I\’m going for something different. Not totally leaving the Logan family – in fact I just finished a scene where the real killer is finally revealed to the reader – but the characters in the story don\’t know that. They think their troubles are all over. Hah! Instead, I\’m going to go over the
Here\’s my top ten – or maybe bottom ten, who knows, reasons why I\’m not going to DC for the RWA Nationals in 2009. 10 – I don\’t want people to see how crappy I am at networking. (Which is almost a pity because I have some email acquaintances this year who might even know
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