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Eva Langston

10 Simple Plot Exercises You Need to Do BEFORE You Write Your Novel!

High Concept Books & How to Write Them

in Writing on 10/25/20

What Is a High Concept Book? Recently I’ve been listening to The Manuscript Academy podcast. In each episode, agent Jessica Sinsheimer (creator of The Manuscript Wish List) and author Julie Kingsley interview someone from the publishing industry, usually an agent or editor.  Often, the agents and editors say they are looking for books that are “high concept,” but when they’re… View Post

Understanding FanFiction & How It Can Help Writers

in Writing on 10/12/20

The following is a guest post from Hayley Zelda, who is a writer and marketer at heart. She’s written on all the major writing platforms and worked with a number of self-published authors on marketing books to the YA audience. Whether or not to write fanfiction is an important question for many writers. On one hand, it might seem like an… View Post

unpleasant writing advice

Unpopular and Unpleasant Writing Advice You Should Still Probably Take

in Writing on 10/18/19

There are a lot of people out there giving a lot of writing advice.  Some is great, some is garbage, and some can even be rage-inspiring. (See my post The Piece of Writing Advice That Really Pisses Me Off.)  And then there are the unpleasant pearls in this list: really good advice, even though you might wish otherwise.  The writing advice… View Post

How and when to use summary and scene in fiction writing.

Summary and Scene in Fiction Writing: How and Why to Use them Both

in Writing, YA & MG Posts on 04/28/19

I haven’t written any new posts lately because I’ve been consumed with two other creative projects. The first is the project of creating a new human.  Yes, I’m having a second child!  And for the first ten weeks of this pregnancy I was exhausted and constantly nauseated, and I spent my writing time napping instead.  Once the nausea and exhaustion passed,… View Post

7 game-changing revision tips to help you have an a-ha moment with your manuscript and make story-level changes that improve your overall novel

7 Game-Changing Revision Tips: How to Have an A-Ha Moment with Your Manuscript

in Writing on 03/03/19

Now, when I say revision tips, I don’t mean line-editing for spelling and punctuation.  I don’t mean rewriting sentences and cutting words. No.  I mean looking at the manuscript as a whole and making big, story-level changes.  This can be hard to do on your own.  I definitely recommend getting a trusted critique partner to read your manuscript and give… View Post

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