How to Stop Spamming and Grow Your Network
…your interests, your hobbies, pieces of your life and thoughts (within reasonable bounds of professionalism and privacy, of course). So go ahead, gush over your cat. If Taylor Swift can…
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Ask Becca: So What is New Adult, Anyway?
…that happens afterward. I decided to employ New Adult author and fellow MUGster, Taylor Lauren Ross (and all-around awesome person) to illuminate some of the points. “Of course, I myself…
Reading Teen Lit
…Tahereh Mafi* Science Fiction/Fantasy/Paranormal Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor* City of Bones by Cassandra Clare* Graceling by Kristin Cashore* Across the Universe by Beth Revis* Feed by…
#5onFri: Five Ways to Resist the Inexorable Forces Pulling You from Your Writing
…illustrated with her watercolors. Her other books are: Toward Amnesia, In Case of Emergency, Break Glass, Grand Isle, and Blue, winner of the 2002 Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel….
Developing Themes In Your Stories: Part 3 – The External Conflict
…explain how these “what if” scenarios reveal literary themes in the next section. For now, here are examples from three published novels to get you started: Laini Taylor’s Daughter of…
May 2023 Leisure Learning: Way, Way Back in the Day
…does happen to be the grandson of the famed poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Love of English run in the family much? William Blake, Mixed Media Artist William Blake is the…
#5onFri: Five Classic Films Featuring Characters Who Write
…us the space to create. Here are five classic films featuring writers. (Spoilers Ahead.) 1. Girl Shy: 1924, Silent Comedy, story by Sam Taylor, Tim Whelan, and Ted Wilde, titles…
Should You Use Pop Culture References in Fiction (For Kids and Teens)?
…I Beyonce or Taylor Swift today reference since now T Swift is seen as a problematic white pseudo-feminist that causes drama instead of a broken hearted girl anthem queen. Even…
Eight Reasons Adults Read YA
…Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor 3) YA tackles serious issues, but in a hopeful way I’ve read young adult books about school shootings, murder, drug abuse, eating…
#5onFri: Five Tools to Rock Your Revision
…not alone. Look at Taylor Swift’s songs. They are highly specific, detailing particular things in her life but, because of that, they resonate on a universal level. She doesn’t edit…
