Seven Links…8/17/19 Traci Kenworth My original links for this week were lost by Overdrive. It was my first and last time trying it. Writing: 1. https://kriswrites.com/2019/08/14/business-musings-expect-success/ “I’ve been doing a series on licensing for writers, which is subtitled “Rethinking the Writing Business.” Normally, I would put this particular blog as Part 8 of the series, […]
Category: MG & YA
Book Talk 8/16/19 What I’m Reading in YA Traci Kenworth
Book Talk 8/16/19: What I’m Reading in YA Traci Kenworth I’m reading Brigind Kenner’s A Curse So Dark and Lonely (A Beauty and the Beast retelling), Susan Dennard’s Windwitch and Sightwitch( a prequel to the Witchlands series), Kristine Cashore’s Graceling, Dragon’s Oath by P.C. and Kristen Cast, Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi, […]
Writerly Things 8/12/19: The Benefits of Not Counting Words Traci Kenworth
Writerly Things 8/12/19: The Benefits of Not Counting Words Traci Kenworth I stopped counting words about a year back. To be honest, it’s freeing and helps boost my creativity. Not that I don’t put the work in. I find pressuring myself to reach a thousand to two thousand or more limit stressful. Instead, I count […]
Seven Links 8/10/19 Traci Kenworth
Seven Links…8/10/19 Traci Kenworth Writing: 1. https://killzoneblog.com/2019/08/when-writers-hit-the-wall.html “Early in my writing career I noticed something happening when I got to around the 30k word mark in a manuscript. It was like I hit a wall. It’s not that I didn’t have ideas or know the direction of my plot. It was just a strange feeling […]
Book Talk 8/9/19: Gena Showalter’s The Evil Queen
Book Talk 8/9/19: Gena Showalter’s The Evil Queen Traci Kenworth The Evil Queen by Gena Showalter. YA Fairytale. Inkyard Press. June 25, 2019. Amazon’s blurb: WELCOME TO THE FOREST OF GOOD AND EVIL. A DREAM COME TRUE…AND A LIVING NIGHTMARE. Far, far away, in the realm of Enchantia, creatures of legend still exist, magic is […]
Writerly Things 8/5/19: 88 Cups of Tea Traci Kenworth
Writerly Things: 8/5/19: 88 Cups of Tea Traci Kenworth This month is the three-year anniversary of 88 Cups of Tea. It is a podcast about YA writers. They discuss everything from money to craft to beyond. It is a Patreon-based service, but you can join for as little as $3.88 a month. It is SO […]
Seven Links 8/3/19 Traci Kenworth
Seven Links…8/3/19 Traci Kenworth Writing: 1. https://killzoneblog.com/2019/07/how-to-come-up-with-a-title.html “My favorite genre for pure reading pleasure is the pulp and mass market crime fiction of the golden age—roughly 1929 (the year The Maltese Falcon was published) to the early 1960s (when secret agents started to take over). Some of the titles from that period reach out and grab you […]
