Archive for April, 2008

Plotting Difficult Topics: Loss, action

This is part of a series of posts on Plotting Difficult Topics
In Inviting the Wolf In: Thinking About Difficult Stories by Loren Niemi and Elizabeth Ellis, the authors recognize that how you approach a difficult subject can make huge differences in voice, POV, plot and resolution. They suggest 32 different approaches and this series of [...]

Plotting Difficult Topics: Loss, Grief

This is part of a series of posts on Plotting Difficult Topics
In Inviting the Wolf In: Thinking About Difficult Stories by Loren Niemi and Elizabeth Ellis, the authors recognize that how you approach a difficult subject can make huge differences in voice, POV, plot and resolution. They suggest 32 different approaches and this series of [...]

Plotting Difficult Topics: Loss, guilt

This is part of a series of posts on Plotting Difficult Topics
In Inviting the Wolf In: Thinking About Difficult Stories by Loren Niemi and Elizabeth Ellis, the authors recognize that how you approach a difficult subject can make huge differences in voice, POV, plot and resolution. They suggest 32 different approaches and this series of [...]

M. P. Barker: Class of 2k8

This is part of a year-long series about those intrepid newcomers, The Class of 2k8. To help marketing efforts for debut novelists, these 28 novelists have banded together to create a group marketing effort.
M.P. Barker
A Difficult Boy, Holiday House.
Revising A Difficult Boy
Some writers claim to lo-o-o-ve revision. Then again, some people claim to [...]

Plotting Difficult Topics: Loss, denial

This is part of a series of posts on Plotting Difficult Topics
In Inviting the Wolf In: Thinking About Difficult Stories by Loren Niemi and Elizabeth Ellis, the authors recognize that how you approach a difficult subject can make huge differences in voice, POV, plot and resolution. They suggest 32 different approaches and this series of [...]

Plotting Difficult Topics: Wickedness, action

This is part of a series of posts on Plotting Difficult Topics
In Inviting the Wolf In: Thinking About Difficult Stories by Loren Niemi and Elizabeth Ellis, the authors recognize that how you approach a difficult subject can make huge differences in voice, POV, plot and resolution. They suggest 32 different approaches and this series of [...]

Jacobs, Meyers and more

Successful Reviser
Read the interview with author Deborah Lynn Jacobs about her newest novel, CHOICES. She brought this manuscript to the 2005 Novel Revision Retreat, then revised and revised.
The workbook for the retreat Novel Metamorphosis is now available.
And the online Novel Metamorphosis class is taking registrations for the May/June class.
Strange Rules for the Road
Stephanie Meyers [...]

Plotting Difficult Topics: Wickedness, grief

This is part of a series of posts on Plotting Difficult Topics
In Inviting the Wolf In: Thinking About Difficult Stories by Loren Niemi and Elizabeth Ellis, the authors recognize that how you approach a difficult subject can make huge differences in voice, POV, plot and resolution. They suggest 32 different approaches and this series of [...]

Plotting Difficult Topics: Wickedness, Guilt

This is part of a series of posts on Plotting Difficult Topics
In Inviting the Wolf In: Thinking About Difficult Stories by Loren Niemi and Elizabeth Ellis, the authors recognize that how you approach a difficult subject can make huge differences in voice, POV, plot and resolution. They suggest 32 different approaches and this series of [...]

Plotting Difficult Topics: Wickedness, denial

This is part of a series of posts on Plotting Difficult Topics.
In Inviting the Wolf In: Thinking About Difficult Stories by Loren Niemi and Elizabeth Ellis, the authors recognize that how you approach a difficult subject can make huge differences in voice, POV, plot and resolution. They suggest 32 different approaches and this series of [...]

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