Let's be honest, hating your work takes a toll. So you spent days, weeks, even months or years, on a piece of writing. You edited and rewrote. You spent hours trying to get everything just right, and finally, you feel comfortable with it, enough to send it out to that literary journal or press for … Continue reading Hating Your Work After Publishing It
I recently read this awesome article by K. M. Allan about how to reduce word count. As someone who never writes concisely and always ends up with tons of details and extra words that aren't necessary (probably like now), this was super helpful. Happy reading! 5 Ways To Reduce A Big Word Count - K. … Continue reading Reblog: 5 Ways To Reduce A Big Word Count – K. M. Allan
Young Adult as a writing genre is still a fairly new idea in the literary world. One of the first major novels considered "YA" was most likely S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders, mainly because teenagers were the targeted audience, as well as what the story was about. Since then, YA has grown into probably one … Continue reading How the YA Audience Expanded Beyond Teenagers
