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Driving your Young Adult Novel’s Plot

posted on: May 10, 2013 | author: KristiCook

This month I’m going to talk about craft–specifically, structuring the plot of your YA novel. Often when I’m instructing writing...

posted on: Dec 7, 2012 | author: KristiCook

There’s nothing more satisfying–and more challenging–than writing the final chapter of your young adult novel, particularly if that...

posted on: Sep 7, 2012 | author: KristiCook

To follow up on last month’s post, I checked in with a wide range of middle-school- and high-school-age readers and asked them to speak...

posted on: Jul 30, 2012 | author: Lori Devoti

Romance gets a bad rap as being formulaic, and it isn’t. At least no more so than any other popular fiction genre. What romance and other genre...

posted on: Jul 18, 2012 | author: Kathy Steffen

As writers we ask our readers to suspend disbelief all the time, but one thing we don’t want in our story—a big gaping plot hole. Stretch...

posted on: Apr 30, 2012 | author: Lori Devoti

Contrary to what some people seem to think, writing a romance is no easier than writing any other type of book. In fact, if writing romance and...