YA Fiction and Literary Fiction First let’s attempt to define what I mean by these terms: YA Fiction, or Young Adult Fiction, is fiction written for teen readers, although certainly adults read YA, too. The main character of a YA novel is usually between the ages of 14 and 19, and the story usually has a teen voice and/or perspective…. View Post
S.E. Reed has been working at writing and getting published for a long time, and all her hard work is finally coming to fruition. Her YA debut releases July 2023, and her second YA novel is scheduled for release in August 2024. She also recently signed a three-book contract (!!) with an indie romance publisher. And she did all of… View Post
What do I mean by line editing? To me, line editing is not just catching typos and correcting grammatical errors, although it’s certainly includes that. It’s about improving and tightening your prose. It’s about killing your darlings, cutting unnecessary words, and rewriting first draft sentences with stronger, more precise language. So, as much as I want to, I’m not going… View Post
I met Claire Forrest in 2015 at a Young Adult writing conference at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. Like me, she was volunteering in order to attend for free. (One of the reasons I knew right away she was my kind of person.) I was going to be moving away from Minneapolis soon, so I told Claire she should… View Post
Are you writing dialogue the wrong way? Every scene in a novel or story is created with four main pillars: action, dialogue, description, and internal thought. So if your dialogue isn’t working, your entire story could crumble. Have people told you your dialogue sounds stilted or unrealistic? Do you want to increase the tension in your dialogue? Are you making grammar… View Post