May 2, 2024 ... Reducing The Idea of You to Fan Fiction ... But assuming a novel with a fictional ... I never set out to write a novel that would spark this kind of ...

Feb 2, 2023 ... I think of myself as a fiction writer ... I tend to write things I want to learn about. ... So for me, there's actually sort of a philosophical ...

Jan 16, 2019 ... As powerful as some ideas feel in the moment, most are quite happy as short stories or flash fiction or poems, or being expressed at all. I now ...

Jun 9, 2021 ... I could just write a linear discussion of the story, or a bunch of unrelated “paper”-like discussions, but those approaches feel like I'm not ...

Oct 7, 2021 ... Tell us a name. Something interesting that they are doing. And then the thoughts and ideas and character spine that are driving that. The rest ...

What typically comes first for you: a character? An era? A story idea? How do you proceed from there? I think this changes with each book for me. Right now, I' ...

Aug 23, 2022 ... The problem, though, is that you're a fiction writer, and the idea of writing essays (especially about yourself) makes you feel queasy. Nearly ...

Apr 24, 2020 ... California crime novels are some of my very favorites and gave us everyone from Raymond Chandler to Dashiell Hammett. Crimereads took a look at ...

Mar 14, 2022 ... ... idea what “being a writer” might mean. I needed to write, but that wasn't all: I wanted to publish, and I wanted people who cared about ...

... book and middle-grade author ... I tend to start with big ideas–themes or threads that I then build a story around. ... books and reading, historical fiction, the ...

Dec 16, 2016 ... ... story” in history. Of course, that's what historical fiction is for young readers. That's what draws them in, the story. This could well be ...

Jan 3, 2013 ... A fiction writer's BOOKS are the primary means of growing readership, not their BLOGS. ... She writes page-turners, and that's what many people ...

Nov 3, 2020 ... writing women's fiction, genre, chick lit, character-driven novels. Orly Konig. Coming up with story ideas has never been an issue for me.

Oct 12, 2022 ... I'm grateful to have expanded my idea of what I can write, and I ... As a fiction writer, I needed a story, and one quickly arose. The ...

... book just to write about the technological wonders. Also, the book has a pretty ... I enjoy science fiction books that are more about ideas, than about ...

Feb 8, 2024 ... Mostly I try to write books that I would enjoy reading myself. Sometimes I'll think back to Teen Marissa and what sort of story would have ...

Nov 6, 2020 ... You might choose to write a book and work with a publisher. ... Nonfiction subscribers get a free tech book, fiction subscribers get a story ...

Nov 7, 2018 ... Those writers wanted nothing more than to write what they called “a book of the heart. ... write cozy mysteries or YA novels or science fiction.

Jun 17, 2022 ... While making a book better, new ideas keep coming in. Not long ago, my struggling writer got back in touch with me. She had rented a cabin ...

May 19, 2010 ... By Janice Hardy, @Janice_Hardy. Ever wonder what the original draft of a published novel looked like? Here's a peek behind the curtain and a ...