Hello! I'm back. If this post feels off, that's my bad. After *counts on fingers* more than three months away, I'm a little rusty. Still,...

As if writing protagonists weren't hard enough, some types are innately more difficult to write than others (at least in my opinion)....

Almost everyone who consumes YA ravenously knows that, more often than not, teen characters are given awful parents. They're alcoholics...

Have you ever read (or written) a book and felt like the characters were flat? Like everything about them was superficial or...

There are always bits and pieces of ideas for books floating around my mind. Sometimes it's a name, a place, an atmosphere, or something...

Hello. It's been a while since I've updated you on my writing. Actually, a long while. October was the last time I went somewhat in-depth...

It doesn't matter if you're a novice or a pro. There will always be some pertinent questions to consider whenever our brain sparks with...

Whether we like it or not, all art is influenced by something we've already seen before. Sometimes writers make conscious choices to...

I've been a reading fiend lately, particularly when it comes to darker YA fiction that's been published in the last five or six years....

I'm almost certain it was Wednesday night. Yes, it must have been, because Thursday ended in a deluge of tears that I slipped on as I...

When you're new to writing, you'll eventually hear the adage, "show, don't tell." You may understand how it's helpful--the readers get to...

I'm typically the type of person who finishes a book no matter what. I'll slug through the slow ones and cringe at the poorly-written...

If you don't know who Angie Thomas is, she is one of the biggest names in contemporary YA. Her books center around the experience of...

As the author, it's easy for us to fall in love with our stories early on--maybe even before we've begun writing. We understand every...

Hey, you. Yeah, you. Why aren't you writing? What are you doing surfing the internet, signing into every social media account known to...

Stephen King is one of the most popular--if not the most popular--writer of our time. In addition to his impressive catalog of horror...

Sometimes, we're zapped with ideas out of nowhere. We're in the car or the shower. We're staring out the window at work or sweating it...

"You don't trust your reader." If you've gotten this comment from a reader or fellow writer, there's a chance you may have squinted and...

Developing characters is a different story for every book and every writer. Some characters open up their whole lives to us the second...

So, you're thinking of sharing your writing, huh? Maybe you're new at it, or maybe you've been around the block a few times but don't...