Sunday Snippets: Dialogue Exercise

It's been a while since I shared a writing exercise. This one was paired with a mini-lesson on avoiding info dumps in writing for my teen writers at the library. Basically, I challenged them to write a scene that explains the culture // world // time // etc. a character is living in entirely through …

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Writing Update: NaNoWriMo 2020

So I meant to write this post for last Sunday but once I hit the 50K mark for NaNo, I was so exhausted that I just didn't feel like writing a blog post or the rest of the novel. It happens. I hit 50K a couple days early with every intention to keep going with …

November Break + Writing Update

With NaNoWriMo upon us and feeling super drained from work, politics, and pandemic, I'm going to take another month break in November. I want to store up some inspiration on what to do with this blog and how to approach book spotlight posts. I might still publish Hump Day Happiness posts because they're easy and …