This is part of a series on how to study fiction, mainly directed at writers who have read all the beginning writing books and are like, “What now?!?” The rest of the series is here. You may also want to check out the series on pacing, here, which I’m eventually going to fold into this series when […]
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The Defenders of Dreams Series I started a new series – or rather continued a story that I had put up a while ago and turned it into a series for middle-graders (9-12 y.o.). These aren’t picture books or chapter books (like Magic Tree House), but more on the level of Percy Jackson or early
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When I was growing up, I loved visiting abandoned places. I grew up on a farm in the 1980s. Haunted houses, old trash landfills in gullies, rusting farm equipment, and half-collapsed buildings were a major part of my landscape. My world seemed ancient and nostalgic, as if I lived in an actual post-apocalyptic society that
This is part of a series on how to study fiction, mainly directed at writers who have read all the beginning writing books and are like, “What now?!?” The rest of the series is here. You may also want to check out the series on pacing, here, which I’m eventually going to fold into this series when
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