[It's "Anna Staniszewski Week" over at Fresh as a Daisy! (Can you hear my head getting bigger?) Today, swing by for my guest post on the lessons I learned from writing a sequel.] I tend to be pretty impatient with books these days, probably because my reading list keeps growing at an alarming rate. If [...]
I’m still in the revision cave, so I’ve asked my fellow Erin Murphy Literary Agency folks to help entertain you guys while I’m gone. Please welcome Daisy Carter who is here to show us how a synopsis can help diagnose story problems (and to reveal my imaginary fear of the color blue). Ode To A Synopsis [...]
I’m hidden away in the revision cave, but I’ve asked my fellow Erin Murphy Literary Agency folks to help entertain you guys while I’m gone. So today, please welcome Kristin Wolden Nitz who reminds us to write what we care about. Achieving Verisimilitude: The Appearance of Being True Verisimilitude is a lovely six-syllable word that [...]
I’m hidden away in the revision cave, but I’ve asked my fellow Erin Murphy Literary Agency folks to help entertain you guys over the coming weeks. So today, welcome Graham Bradley who is here with a reminder to not write crap! DO WHAT IS HARD, ACHIEVE WHAT IS GREAT I feel comfortable in saying that [...]
I’m hidden away in the revision cave, but I’ve asked my fellow Erin Murphy Literary Agency folks to help entertain you guys over the coming weeks. So today, welcome Michelle Ray, who’s here to give us permission to cut cut cut! Cutting Ruthlessly (Like Hamlet Through That Curtain-thingy) I recently decided to turn a historical [...]
I’m hidden away in the revision cave, but I’ve asked my fellow Erin Murphy Literary Agency folks to help entertain you guys over the coming weeks. So today, welcome Melodie Wright, who’s going to tell us how fishing and publishing are strangely alike. Landing the Big One Here in Alaska, it’s fishing season. The waters [...]
I spend a lot of time focusing on fiction on the blog, so today I’m excited to shift focus a little bit with a guest post by Luke Reynolds on his experiences with (and love of) editing nonfiction anthologies. Luke’s most recent book is Keep Calm and Query On: Notes on Writing (and Living) with Hope. [...]
I’m thrilled to continue the “Writing a Series” series with a guest post from Leah Cypess, author of the YA novels Mistwood and Nightspell, on her experiences writing a companion novel: “Every time I look at my revision letter, my stomach literally hurts.” “I think I’ll ask them if I can just write a different book instead.” [...]
[New England folks: I'll be reading and signing books at the Cambridge Public Library this Saturday, January 28th, at 2pm. I hope to see you there!] Today we continue the “Series Series” with a guest post from the amazing Jennifer Nielsen, who shares her secrets to juggling multiple series. In the spring of 2009, my [...]
Today’s guest post comes from writer and blogger extraordinaire, Lydia Sharp: “Hello. My name is Lydia. And I write fiction for teens.” I’m very open about it now, but there was a time when I thought saying those words meant I had either sold myself out, or that my writing skills had taken a step [...]
