A good storyteller isn’t the person who tells the story and the characters, it’s the one who believes in the story enough to make their readers feel it too. For the story to stick in someone’s mind, an author has to reach out through the pages, relating directly to the reader and their life. You […]
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What kind of reader are you? Are you The Sipper, meaning you always eat while you read? Are you The Juggler, reading multiple books and flipping between each one without mixing up the storylines? Do you like to read with a blanket in bed, or can you read anytime, anyplace, in any weather? I like
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In my life, I’ve been given multiple notebooks, many with the intention of ‘journal’, ‘gratitude book’, and even ‘thoughts’. No, they did not end up as the intended dreaded journal, gratitude book, or thought book. They ended up as my first draft stories. The first notebook started it all. It was my eleventh birthday, and
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My aunt gave me this shirt for Christmas. It quickly became my favorite t-shirt because of how true it is. I pay attention to the things that are going on around me-People watching. If I find something interesting, or it sparks an idea, it ends up in my novel. Hence the saying. One scene I’ve
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Before I explain the meme, this is a mock-up sketch of my main character, a fairy boy named Zet. While you might argue that in the picture, he has no wings, that was intentional. In my book, fairies do have wings, even this one, but in a later disaster, he loses them to the villain
For an online writing competition, I wrote a small story with a five hundred word limit. The writing prompt was: You are walking down the street, and suddenly the sky is filled with clouds when you had just been able to see stars a minute ago. A pile of leaves gets stirred into a mini
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I’m so excited!!! The first few chapters of my book are completely done and I’ve finished editing and printed them out for the first time!!! Now that I know what the editing process is like, I hope I can make it go faster and polish the rest of the story more quickly with fewer problems
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This last week I visited the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. I got to walk and drive across the entire thing. I even saw it lit up at night. It was incredible and amazing to see it during the day and night. What some people don’t know is why it is called the Golden
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Today I visited my local library and searched for new reads. As an author, I’m always studying the works of others, seeing what I like and don’t. Finding something in my genre is always hard because I like unique, surprising books. But how am I supposed to judge for myself what is in my genre
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My favorite book is called Blackthorn Key by Kevin Sands. It is a mystery novel and involves magic, alchemy, and frequent explosions. Blackthorn Key is set in London, in 1665. It is about a young apprentice apothecary and his loyal (but slightly less enthusiastic) friend, the son of a local baker. As the tale unwinds,
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