Writing for Young Adults
Teen Tales: The Fear and Strength we Take from Tragedies
Teen Tales: The Emotional Firestorm of Developing and Identity
Teen Tales Guest Post: Michelle Merrill on Making Mistakes
Teen Tales: Freedom and the Failure it Opens You Up To
Teen Tales: Dreams, Desires, and How Books Help Fulfill Them
Writing Romance for Young Adults
Teen Tales: Connecting the YA Experience to YA Literature
Characterization
How to Create a Character's Personality
Write Deeper Characters: Be them for a day
How to Write Fascinating Characters by Making them Contradictory
How to Write Three-Dimensional Characters with a Little Help from Doctor Who
4 Tips for Writing Characters not of Your Gender
How to Write Strong Character Relationships
Finding Characters in Real Life
Strengthen your Story through your Character's Wants
Creating Compelling Characters: The 3-2-5 Rule
How a Minor Character can Make or Break your Plot
Researching your Setting
Creating Strong Settings from Real Places
Setting: The Forgotten Middle Child, Part I
Setting: The Forgotten Middle Child, Part II
Worldbuilding: Doing your Research
Writing Process
Developing the Idea
Creating Characters
The Outline and First Draft
Revisions
Packrat or Purger-- What do you do With Cut Scenes?
What in a Name? How to Title Your Book
Two Secrets to Writing: Have a Take and Don't Suck
From Idea to Story
Turn an Idea into a Killer Concept: Go Big or Go Home
How to Kindle your Imagination, or This One Time I Slapped a Guy
Combining All Your Great Ideas to Make One Great Story
Two Secrets to Writing: Have a Take and Don't Suck
Developing the Idea
Finding your Sense of Awe
Story Construction
How to Write Emotions so the Reader Cares: Lessons from 13 Reasons Why
How to Write a Book Readers Can't Put Down: Using Scenes and Sequels
3 Keys to Promoting a Willing Suspension of Disbelief
Writing Romance for Young Adults
Story Structure Tips for Pantsing-- and Plotting-- Your Way to a Better Novel
How to Dump Info Without Info-Dumping-- Writing Lessons from Inception
How to Write a Life-Changing Book
How to Write Sequels that Stand on Their Own
How to Write Gripping Opening Scenes
How to Write a Book Readers Can't Put Down: Using Scenes and Sequels
How to Write Emotions so the Reader Cares: Lessons from 13 Reasons Why
Choosing the Right Words and the Hilarious Embarrassment of Failing to Do So
Beauty in Layers-- Writing Powerful Scenes
Writing What You Believe
Why You Should Really Listen When They Say Show, Don't Tell
Making Goals and Time Management
Finding Balance in the Writing Life: 3 Tips for Making and Keeping a Schedule
Don't Let Goals Interfere with your Writing
Finding Balance in the Writing Life a Day at a Time
The Balancing Act of an Aspiring Author
Balancing the Writing Life
Genre Writing
Writing Romance for Young Adults
How to Write (or not Write) Families in a YA Novel
How to Write Humor that's Actually Funny
5 Tips for Writing Memorable Romantic Scenes
Sci Fi-- It's Not Just for Nerds Anymore
Motivation
You can Keep Writing When you Think you can't
How to Beat Writers Block: The Illustrated Guide to Inspiration
Sometimes, Life Wants you to Succeed
When you Want to Give Up
On Being Enough-- Facing Writer's Depression
I Suck: A Writer's Greatest Fear
Rejection is an Opportunity
Book Market Trends and Other Things you Have no Control Over
Your Name Really is Your Brand
Social Networking for Writers: If Facebook Exploded Tomorrow
Book Reviews for Writers
Maintaining Enthusiasm from True Spirit
Deepening Setting from The Healing Spell
Strengthening Character Relationships from Wither
Create an Adventure from Nexus Point
Constructing Beautiful Prose from Matched
Writing with Emotional Power from Revolution
Conferences
4 Things you get from a Writing Conference you can't get Anywhere Else
Your Name Really is Your Brand
The Benefits of Writing Conferences
Critiques and Writing Advice
When to Ignore Writing Advice
My Crit Group is P90X for my Book
Querying, Agents, and Publication
Book Market Trends and Other Things you Have no Control Over
The Ups and Downs of Querying
Writing the Query: Believe it or Not, you Already Know how to do This
What if (Gulp) you Don't Get Published?
Rejection is an Opportunity
Just for Fun
Cover Love-- Creating Your Own Book Covers
Novel Planning Tools even Pantsers will Love
This One Time, I Read Jane Austen's Disputed First Work in Print
How Books are Made: From Print to Ship
Titles you Say You'd Never Read
What's in a Name? How to Title Your Book
