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How to fight like a girl; when your female protagonist is attacked
At some point in your writing, your female protagonist might be attacked by a man. If you haven’t given her super powers or a strong background in martial arts getting her out of the situation might be tricky. Read more
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Where do you get your ideas?
If you are a writer you have heard this question. I used to struggle with answering it. Ideas for stories are a dime a dozen. They are all around you, and even more so, they are so prevalent within you, they overflow, right out of you into a page. Then one day I was talking Read more
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When a story writes itself
I have spent many nights glaring at a computer screen typing and deleting the same paragraph, willing my characters to move, trying to force a story to happen. Every writer has. When it happens, sometimes you might be lucky and some read-overs can compel your hands, or a google search can make the story lurch Read more
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Writing YA for adults who are young
I recently read an article that criticized love and first sight and anything beyond “pure” romance in YA novels (I guess that means anything beyond chaste kissing?). It made me a little angry. Not as a writer. As a former young adult. I remember being a teenager. Do you? The writer claimed the best YA Read more
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When your Muse is MIA
This week has been a rough one for me. I got some difficult news and some conflicts need to be addressed that I don’t feel like dealing with. For me, this equates to a lack of will to write. My motivation has crapped out and I have no ideas even if hadn’t. Normally this would Read more
LC W. Allingham 