(1) What are the five BEST or most important qualities you look for in a compelling YA novel? #1: Dialog: Lots of it! A few phrases of flowery descriptions scattered in here and there between dialog is fine, but when you start writing page after page after page of descriptions, I [...] Read Full Story

On NaNoWriMo I found a thread that asked: A question for TEENS... what do YOU want? I had to answer this because all I read is teen fiction. (1) What are the five BEST or most important qualities you look for in a compelling YA novel? #1: Dialog: Lots of it! A few phrases of flowery descriptions scattered in here and there between dialog is fine, but when you start writing page after page after page of descriptions, I start falling asleep. There should be dialog on every page. More than 50... Read Full Story

Was reading Top 25 Clichés in YA novels and had to respond to her list.Lets see how many of these thing I did/do in real life, shall we?#25 – Vegetarian teens with unsympathetic meat-eating parentsI was a vegan teen who grew up on a poultry farm. My parents were very unsympathetic.#24 – Shy or withdrawn characters that take refuge in the school’s art room/ compassionate art teachersI have Autism - I have barely spoken a full paragraph in my entire life - I was constantly teased and bullied by... Read Full Story

Was reading Top 25 Clichés in YA novels and had to respond to her list. Lets see how many of these thing I did/do in real life, shall we? #25 – Vegetarian teens with unsympathetic meat-eating parents I was a vegan teen who grew up on a poultry farm. My parents were very unsympathetic. #24 – Shy or withdrawn [...] Read Full Story

Was reading Top 25 Clichés in YA novels and had to respond to her list. Lets see how many of these thing I did/do in real life, shall we? #25 – Vegetarian teens with unsympathetic meat-eating parents I was a vegan teen who grew up on a poultry farm. My parents were very unsympathetic. #24 – Shy or withdrawn [...] Read Full Story

Just me answering some NaNoWriMo questions again.So, apparently my MC is a Mormon. Help![quote=LulaAndTheUnicorn]It turns out my MC is a Mormon and so is all of her family. The problem is, i'm an atheist and don't have a clue when it comes to religion. Please can anyone offer any basic info - my character is an 18 year old girl in the mid '50's - how would this religion affect her day to day life?emple? If so would they wear traditionalHow often would the family go to church?Also, her sister ... Read Full Story

So, I've been reading all the Vampire Threads on NaNoWriMo, when I found this one on: Vampire discussion: the technical aspects and this one Vampire Guidlines...?, and they inspired me to spend the last 3 hours figuring out who and what my vampires are and than writing up an answer. YOW! What a long post this one is! Here is my answer:There are different types of vampires in my way of thinking, but for the book I am currently working on there are just two types of vampires, which I refer to ... Read Full Story

So, I've been reading all the Vampire Threads on NaNoWriMo, when I found this one on: Vampire discussion: the technical aspects, and it inspired me to spend the last 3 hours figuring out who and what my vampires are and than writing up an answer. Here is my answer:There are different types of vampires in my way of thinking, but for the book I am currently working on there are just two types of vampires, which I refer to as: True Vampires and Common Vampires. As you will notice from my answers... Read Full Story

So, I’ve been reading all the Vampire Threads on NaNoWriMo, when I found this one on: Vampire discussion: the technical aspects and this one Vampire Guidlines…?, and they inspired me to spend the last 3 hours figuring out who and what my vampires are and than writing up an answer. YOW! What a long [...] Read Full Story

LOL! I was reading this thread http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/3311308 and all it’s sparkely glittering vampire talk every one was talking about instead of having sparkely shinned Twilight vampires they are going to have vampires that actually wear glitter instead…. (sorry, I have not read Twilight so, yeah, you guys sort of lost me there, but from [...] Read Full Story