The worst mistake that you can make when writing for young adults is to oversimplify the material. Although young adults are complex human beings with intelligent minds, blog writers and pop psychologists will often try to boil an entire demographic down to a singularity, causing writers to err into a realm of unauthentic and oversimplified […]
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By: Julie Berry When I first started working on my book, I believed I could simply write and the words, ideas, and awe-inspiring stories would easily flow from my fingertips, through the keyboard, and onto the page. But then reality hit, and I felt like I was a lab rat lost in a very confusing
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By Susannah Baker Writing is no small or easy task. It requires time, mental focus, emotional energy, and blood, sweat, and tears. OK, maybe not blood, but some days, it certainly does feel like it. And while writing and producing a completed work you feel semi-comfortable sharing with an audience is hard enough, taking the
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What was your New Year’s Resolution? Was it to finally write that book? Maybe it was to find a publisher for the book/manuscript you’ve already written. Or perhaps it was just to find someone who could tell your story. Have you kept it? Statistically speaking 25% of people abandon their New Year’s Resolutions in the
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