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Step 2 of Nanowrimo Novel Planning: Back Cover Blurb
STEP TWO: THE BACK COVER BLURB Congratulations! You have your one-sentence summary complete, and you’re ready to build on it. Your agent pitch is ready, so it’s time for your back cover blurb. People who pick up a novel at a bookstore almost immediately flip it over to “see what it’s all about.” It’s…
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STEP 1 of Nanowrimo Novel Planning: A simple (?) sentence!
Remember that for Nanowrimo, our weapon of choice is … a snowflake. See yesterday’s post if you don’t know what I’m talking about. In any case, today, I’m posting the first of seven steps that will help you plan a novel for Nanowrimo. Even if you’ve never planned before, I guarantee this method will…
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NANOWRIMO: Planner or Pantser? It doesn’t matter…
You know who you are as a writer–either you love to plan out every detail, or you love the thrill of writing by the seat of your pants, not knowing where it might take you… but it doesn’t matter. One area even the Pantser needs to think about is WHAT KIND OF NOVEL WILL I WRITE?…
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Prologue Trick from Lisa Unger and Michael Slade and…
To some editors and many readers that “P” word, “prologue,” is almost a swear word. Piles of readers skip over prologues to get to “the meat” of the story. Some editors HATE them. But…what if your story needs one? Here’s a strategy used by Lisa Unger in Beautiful Lies: October 25th, 1972 There were times…
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SUMMER OF BLADES is one of three finalists in a novel contest!
OK, SUPER EXCITING NEWS! My novel, a YA Medieval Fantasy, Summer of Blades, is one of three finalists in a contest put on by Grasmere Publishing. The winner gets his or her novel published. In other words, I am literally two books away from fulfilling a dream–having a novel in print! It gets…