Young adult novels have never been more popular. Some of my favorites began with the rise ofHarry Potterand continued with hits likeThe Fault in Our Stars,The Hunger Games, andDivergent. If this is one of your favorite markets, you might wonder how to write a YA novel? Learning how to ...
It’s common to find articleschampioning YA novels that include BIPOC(black, indigenous and people of color) characters, those who are differently abled, or LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, asexual and other) meaningfully. Read adetailed blogon how to avoid stereotypes ...
is to write the next novel about one (or two) of the secondary characters— especially best friends, siblings, or romantic competitors of the main characters. Emily Giffin does this seamlessly in her novels, Something Borrowed and Something Blue: two of the heroine’s best friends in the ...
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How to Write a Proposal. OK, so at some point you’ve got most of the basic craft skills down and you’ve become a Junior or even a Senior. At that point, you need to learn how to write a proposal. There are several books out there. Seems like a new one comes out every year....
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We’ll talk more about how to format chapters in just a moment. The ending At the very end of your novel, you need to write THE END, just like that, in all caps. This should come just after the final line of your story and should be center-justified. This helps the editor, agen...
It can be a little harder in first person, which leads to our next section: 4. How to choose between first and third person! Let’s start with first person. One recent popular fantasy book that did this well comes from the YA world, where first-person present-tense POV is really popul...