by Lindsey Hodder | Dec 13, 2015 | Imported from AYAP
Reader engagement is one of the hallmarks of a great novel. Think about it, you haven’t heard anyone talk about a novel they love without telling you exactly how hard they were drawn into the story. But when reader engagement is such a tricky thing to nail down,...
by Martina Boone | Jul 14, 2015 | Imported from AYAP
I’m about to spill one of my worst kept writing secrets, by which I mean that I’m going to talk about why I include a lot of the kinds of scenes that legendary agent and author Donald Maass, whose many books about writing I usually agree with in... by Jan Lewis | May 30, 2014 | Imported from AYAP
Jill Corcoran blogged about ways to activate your story, using Gayle Forman’s novel, If I Stay, as an example of a great beginning. She wrote: Gayle does not start the book at the moment of the car crash. We first see the family together, we actually fall...
by Martina Boone | Mar 29, 2011 | Imported from AYAP
“Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.” ~Joyce Carol Oates~ So yesterday I was driving home from work and I saw a random shoe on the side of the road. It wasn’t the first time either. Maybe it’s where I live or maybe... by Martina Boone | Oct 5, 2010 | Imported from AYAP
Jill Corcoran blogged about ways to activate your story recently, using Gayle Forman’s novel, If I Stay, as an example of a great beginning. She wrote: Gayle does not start the book at the moment of the car crash. We first see the family together, we...
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