Article Dumping: Writer's Block Edition

That, as I have said quite a few times in the past, is a very good question.

There's no reason why you can't have different reading levels within the same "genre". Children''s books are already under a wide label.

Disregarding that though, what makes it different from everything else is that it mostly have teenage protagonists/characters, and it uses the struggles and aspects of teenagehood as a part of the story. Different subject matters are handled differently based on what audience you tell the story to.

How much YA had you read? Just a question.

edited 13th Jul '12 5:45:40 AM by chihuahua0

Monday:

• Beth Revis: The Definition of Badass: It comes down to choice.
• The Indelibles: Starter Covers: Or the initial cover a novel has before receiving a makeover. Common in indie.
• The Other Side of the Story: When Less is More: Taking Away Elements to Fix a Problem Scene: In this case, characters.
• Courage 2 Create: The Pitfalls Of Excessive Book Knowledge (And How To Avoid Them): As usual, too much of a good thing is bad.
• YA Highway: Writers: Born, Not Made: You're born with that passion.
• Book Riot: Sixteen MORE Things Calvin and Hobbes Said Better Than Anyone Else: In the world of comics, here's a collection of quotes.

Tuesday:

• Sorry, no posts today.

Snowy's Guide to Critiquing, Part One: To the Writer

It kind of seems inconsistent with her personality, IMO, and even if it seems like it's stating the obvious, sometimes we need reminders.

Now I'm curious to see who liked that on Facebook but it won't let me. Or maybe I'm just really dumb XD

edited 17th Jul '12 11:01:05 AM by TerminalOptimist

Wow, did you really like that post so—

-checks pothole-

Preposterous, I say!

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I like Snowy's pedantic, sardonic qualities. She's very no-nonsense, and it makes her posts more fun to read.

"B. The critic decides that “please be honest and don’t be afraid to tear it apart” is a license to be a passive-aggressive asshole or just an asshole and make personal attacks. "

This is why I stopped using that phrase.

Wednesday:

• Racelle Gardner: What’s Happening With My Publisher Contract?: It takes time to get it right.
• The Other Side of the Story: Guest Author Jamie Todd Rubin: Get Out of Your Head: Don't get hung up on writing advice.
• AndiLit: Slave or Enslaved – The Words We Use: Are there implications behind using the words "blackness" and "darkness"?

My response to that last article is in the comments there. Fair warning: There are many teal deer in my garden...

edited 18th Jul '12 6:30:31 PM by JHM

Have you read her response to your comment yet? Just asking, since I checked.

Thursday:

• CyberWitch Press: Lessons Learned in Self-Publishing: What will set you apart from the 90%.
• Jungle Red Writers: Police Procedure: 5 Ways We Get It Wrong: The FBI won't hijack Average Joe murder cases.

I just did, and I think that her response was quite reasonable.

Monday:

• From the Write Angle: Does It Really Take a Village to Write a Novel?: What a writing community really means.
• Write to Done: The #1 Secret of Great Writers: Revising, my friends.
• Krissy Media Ink: What to Do When Your Writing's Worst Enemy is You: I need to focus on getting up earlier.
• Livehacked: Why I Write “Airport Books”: Another (great) opinion in the literary debate.

Tuesday:

• Terribleminds: 25 Things You Should Know About Antagonist: Another great "ramble".
• Adventures in YA and Children's Literature: Julie Anne Peters on LGBTQ and Controversial YA: Why it's important.
• Axandra Sololoff: Writing YA - Themes: It barely scratches the surface, but it's a great run-down.

I really like Terrible Minds.

Wednesday:

• Superhero Nation: Common Pitfalls and Cliches for Superhero Teams: Mostly on characterization, of course.
• Pub Crawl: On Writing Diversity: We can encourage more minority protagonist through having less stories that focus on their perceived "Otherness".

edited 25th Jul '12 2:33:25 PM by chihuahua0

Thursday:

• The Other Side of the Story: Guest Author Roni Loren and Guest Agent Sara Megibow: A Chat About the Romance Genre: Includes discussion about the stigma of erotica.
• Pub Crawl: Too Edgy for Teens? Not Likely.: To paraphrase Jay Asher, "Books that made bad choices look like bad choices aren't bad."

edited 26th Jul '12 3:46:14 PM by chihuahua0

It's a new day~ay!

It's a new week~ek!

Monday:

• NA Alley: Using Goodreads.com to Promote NA!!!: One way to help your demographic using social media.
• JS: Living Better Stories: 3 Reasons You Need to Get “Wrecked”: Or, why living normal is boring.
• How to Write Shop: Five Scenes Every Romance Novel Needs: It's no more formulaic than any other story.
• Krissy Media Ink: 5 Simple Steps to Let Your Writing Back In: It's like she's writing these article for me!

edited 30th Jul '12 10:18:59 AM by chihuahua0

This is a YouTube video, and is partially about YouTube. Despite this, I think its point stands through any creative medium- 'Artists create audiences.'

In this article video John Green talks about why a character's likability or more lack their of is a poor reason to judge a book.

Warning: He discusses this while playing Fifa so he will break off at random times to comment on the game. Despite this it is really good advice when thinking about characters and people criticism of them.

edited 30th Jul '12 11:40:38 AM by Vyctorian

I agree with this partially, but only partially.

Tuesday:

• Suite T: Summertime and the Writing is Easy: Try writing a two-page piece based on a Pinterest pic, for example.
• Julie Musil: Writing lessons learned from 50 SHADES OF GREY: She actually makes this book sound good.
• TalkToYouUniverse: TTYU Retro: "Foot assignments" - how idioms and metaphors bring your world to life: A subtle yet effective world-building technique.
• The Author Chronicles: Generosity: As an author, be generous to other writers.

edited 1st Aug '12 12:03:29 PM by chihuahua0

Wednesday:

• Time to Write: A word NOT to use in your screenplay or novel outline (and some alternatives): Avoid the word "realize".
• YA Indie: How to hire a ghost writer. Confessions of a hack!: Well, she's the "ghostwriter".
• The Other Side of the Story: Guest Author Tiffany Reisz: Forget He Said, She Said – Three Easy Tricks for Better Dialogue: Instead of sex, like last time, she's talking about memorable dialogue.
• Duolit: The Slap-Your-Head-Simple Secret for Selling More Books: Start marketing your book before it comes out.
• Fiction Notes: How Do you Get So Much Done?: Working hours.

Thursday:

• Novel Rocket: Does This Word Count Make My Book Look Big?: Some basic tips on how to slim down your story.
• Warrior Poet: Save Your Creative Life In One Hour Or Less: Posting this for the sake of reminding you to back up your writing.
• Canada Writes: Coach's Corner: Priscila Uppal: Found this article on StumbleUpon. Basically, sport stories don't have to be just about the athletes.

edited 2nd Aug '12 10:14:07 AM by chihuahua0

Did you post any articles on show-don't-tell, ever? —curious—