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I feel like chicken tonight…
It’s amazing how many calls for submissions state “Please, no more stories about rapist-murder-cannibals.” How many do they receive? One? Twenty? How many is too many? Is three about right? Who are...
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Why I Love Dystopian YA
Dystopian fiction’s been around for a long time, but cultural anxiety means it’s rearing its head. And it’s especially suited to YA, because events like the zombie apocalypse or the hunger games ask...
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Etymaulogy
Etymaulogy: The coining, splicing, ruffling, condensing and mutating of words. Throwing words together to create something new. When we do this with ideas, it is called inspiration, and the world...
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Images that inspire you to write
A friend of mine collects images that inspire her to write. They are mostly sunk sailing ships, or ghost sailing ships, or airborne sailing ships. What can I say, the girl likes ships. Also, she’s...
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If there’s an opportunity to receive a critique in a writing competition,...
There are some things in writing you should never pay for. Never pay agents a reading fee to read your work. That is not how good agents work. It’s up to you whether you choose to pay for a literary...
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The Imperfect Perfection of the Love Triangle
Twilight. Harry Potter. Shades of Grey featured one between a girl, a boy and a furry spatula, probably. Love triangles in fiction, especially YA fiction, might be isosceles or equilateral or, or, you...
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Writing advice from Rolling Stone Keith Richards
Music documentaries are endlessly fascinating to me, and they beat documentaries about writers hands-down when it comes to engrossing visuals and sounds. About the only thing the two documentary types...
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