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Glorious Summer Reading
Sun-bathing Girls in Brittany by Moric Goth via Wikimedia Commons What makes summer such a great time for reading? Leading up to summer, even the most trivial magazines and talk shows have a column or...
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Getting Reluctant Readers Reading: the Grown-Up Edition
An Interesting Story by Leon Perrault via Wikimedia Commons If you Google “reluctant readers,” you’ll find quite a bit of material on very young and middle grade readers. These ideas are absolutely...
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Grammar Pet Peeves: Annoying Writing Mistakes Infographic
Perhaps it’s a side effect of reading so voraciously when I was a child, but I’ve never had major issues with grammar. Although my grammar isn’t perfect (no one’s is, really), grammar comes pretty...
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5 Things I Learned in My First Year of Blogging
Birthday Candle by Ardfern via Wikimedia Commons This week marks an entire year of blogging – October 23rd will be my one-year blog anniversary! Happy Blog Birthday to Novel Conclusions! In honor of...
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Character Tags in Fiction and Why They’re Fantastic
Sean Bean as Ned Stark via Google Images In most memorable books you read, the characters hold distinct places in your memory. Why is this? Outside of the overarching plot, what makes characters...
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Make it Real: Building Diversity in Fiction
Colourful Army by Maistora via Flickr Traveling over the holidays has gotten me thinking a lot about diversity. Everywhere you go, the people are different and diverse and represent different parts of...
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The DNA of a Successful Book
Although here in blogland, it seems like everyone is reading e-books, the general public still reads more print books than e-books. According to this recent Pew Research Study, about 1 in 5 American...
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The Invisibility of Good Writing
The Storm by Pierre-Auguste Cot via Wikimedia Commons I helped a coworker with a business letter recently, a coworker I consider to be a generally good writer. This person, who is an articulate...
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YA Retellings: an Epic Infographic
For generations, storytellers, bards, and troubadours — ancient and modern — have been putting new spins on old tales. One of the oldest collections of stories, the Bible itself, even mentions this in...
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A Sense of Home
Cabin with Children Playing by Thomas Birch via Wikimedia Commons Lately I’ve been thinking quite a bit about how to create a sense of home for my main character in my current work-in-progress. Before...
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