by Martina Boone | May 31, 2016 | Imported from AYAP
Ready to write better characters? You need to F.E.E.L. them first. Your character isn’t you. And she isn’t neutral. She has feelings and experiences that color everyone she meets and every situation she encounters, and sharing those feelings and...
by Martina Boone | Feb 16, 2016 | Imported from AYAP
“According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic as Oliver Twist, I’ll thank him for the advice.” ― Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road Last week, I wrote...
by Martina Boone | Feb 9, 2016 | Imported from AYAP
We all lie. We may not admit it, we may not even know it, but we do. And those of us who are loudest to proclaim our honesty are often those who lie the worst. All we have to do is look at the current political campaign with a clear eye to see human nature in all its...
by Martina Boone | Feb 2, 2016 | Imported from AYAP
I was asked the plotter versus pantser question while I was on an author panel at the Young Adult Keller Book Festival this past weekend (YAKFEST) (which was wonderful!), and as usual I felt a little deer-in-the-lightsish. And my answer, as usual, is that I’m a...
by S.P. Sipal | Nov 27, 2015 | Imported from AYAP
We’re thrilled to welcome author Joshua David Bellin to the blog today as our monthly Ask a Pub Pro! Joshua is here to answer your questions on what exactly is an unreliable narrator and how to craft one, how to creatively recycle character types, and the pros...
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