It seems obvious, but you would be surprised how easy it is to forget that fact.Writing a bookwith teenage characters is not enough to make a book YA. You have towrite authentic characterswith real teenage problems in a real teenage world (even if that world is found in an awesome fanta...
It’s enough information to give Db7 a similar sense of tension and release to G7 in the context of aharmonic progression. If that weren’t enough, the root of the tritone substitution is exactly a tritone away from the root of the dominant 7th! Using the Db7 in place of the G7 is ...
There's a trope in late '90s movies where a motivated, ambitious main character does everything they can to get on the same elevator ride as the CEO of some powerful company. It usually ends the same way. Our protagonist makes a nervous, fast-paced speech that the CEO ignores while ...
if you tell them that “all gay kids are,whatever” or “all black kids arethis other thing” then they’re going to start to internalize and believe that. We have to tell a variety of stories, and we have to put a variety of people into stories....
For a series, adopt a staircase pricing strategy The most successful self-published authors are usuallythe ones who write one or more series. One reason for this is that it only requires the author to heavily market the first book in the series. If the reader likes that first book, they ...
For a series, adopt a staircase pricing strategy The most successful self-published authors are usuallythe ones who write one or more series. One reason for this is that it only requires the author to heavily market the first book in the series. If the reader likes that first book, they ...
the actual genre, but I have always featured a romantic element inall of my novelsand I enjoy reading well-written romance stories. So today, as the second installment in this five-part “Genre Tips” series, I am offering some of my own thoughts and observations on how to write romance...
Even in music, the echoes of metafiction can be heard. Singer-songwriters, in an attempt to discuss their songwriting process, often craft lyrics that become meta-narratives. They tell a story while simultaneously commenting on the art of creating it. This metafictional approach in pop culture is...
But to label her style as "sad girl music" misses the point. She wears her flaws like a cape; in doing so, she's not only dismantling the "strong Black woman" trope that undermines the humanity of Black women — she's also allowing any listener to simplyfeel. ...
This can be especially tricky in writing, because readers interpret the tone of voice from a character’s words. We don’t have actors to make cruel lines come off as loving gibes. So let’s look at how to write banter that’s fun instead of just mean. ...