Old friend. Gold advice.
Last week was spring break, dudes! Spring break at the McLanes! (Or, as it is known in the world of stay-at-home-moms, MANDATORY OVERTIME.) Not that I don’t love hanging with my kid. I… Read More
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Wait, wait, don’t tell me.
The primary use of dialogue is to convey information. We do it all the time in daily life. The problem we run into, when writing, is when we make the mistake of having… Read More
The Worst Writing Advice I Ever Ignored
There’s a lot of writing advice out there. A lot of it is great. And some of it is B-A-D, bad. Like many things in life, you have to take writing advice with… Read More
When Is It Too Much?
When is it too much? When have you gone too far? Too Much is one of those things I can easily identify in other writers’ works, but find difficult to see in my… Read More
Turning Your Rough Drafts Into Gems
“Mom, what does sandstone turn into?” My daughter recently finished a geology unit at school, and was quizzing me on the things she’d learned. “Quartzite,” she said. “What does the sandstone need to… Read More
How To Live With A Writer
This week we’re looking at the writing life from the perspective of those who deal with the writer’s neuroses, insecurities and ego on a daily basis. To get a true insider’s perspective, I… Read More
The PLC Interviews A.S. King
A.S. King’s newest YA novel, Everybody Sees the Ants (Little, Brown October 2011) is a Junior Library Guild selection, has received several starred reviews, and has been called “a subtly written, profoundly honest novel” by Booklist. Her… Read More
Aspiring author? Want detailed, technical advice? Here’s the #1 blog you ought to be reading.
This week at the PLC we’ll be talking about Writing Tools, things we use to help us, that might also help you.
Let’s face it, writing blogs are pretty common. Lots of them *cough, like this one, ahem* are great, full of little tips and tricks and mood-boosters. But there’s only one blog out there that gives you so much useful information it’ll practically make your head explode.
Own Your Creative Process
As writers, we are constantly being inundated with advice, collective wisdom, and snapshots of other writers’ creative process. On any given day, the internet hands me several blog posts about writing, writers posting their daily word counts, writers obsessing over submission stats, and writers kibitzing over every imaginable aspect of craft, business, artistry, and process. Whether upbeat or despairing, these tweets, status updates, and posts give us a window into the writer’s life…and a guaranteed reason to worry we might be doing it all wrong ourselves.
THE NOT SO SHORT…CUTS
by Jordan Summers It used to be that you could give a new writer advice on the publishing industry and be pretty certain that what you were telling them was the truth to… Read More
