by Martina Boone | Nov 22, 2011 | Imported from AYAP
Conflict is always good. It’s good for our characters, and it’s good for us as writers. Pushing ourselves through the hard scenes, the hard revisions, the tough first drafts, that’s conflict. Overcoming conflict in ourselves and our writing forces us... by Martina Boone | Jul 7, 2011 | Imported from AYAP
Since Marissa and I are still on blog hiatus, we’re not picking contest winners until we get back. In the meantime, here’s a repost of an earlier article I wrote while I was thinking about bringing scenes to life in a novel. For me, the best scenes...
by Martina Boone | Jun 28, 2010 | Imported from AYAP
“Show, don’t tell” is probably the most common advice given to writers. But that’s not the whole story. I’ve been thinking a lot about this issue in the past weeks. Michael Bourret described how he has been seeing a lot of manuscripts...
by Martina Boone | Jun 8, 2010 | Imported from AYAP
We all know that a novel is about conflict. No one wants to read about people living happily ever after–that’s why it isn’t in the fairy tales. But a good novel, a great novel, isn’t just one big conflict. It’s a series of tense...
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