Writing Tips

Rough Times and Reader Impact

(Content warming: suicide) I originally wrote this post (and shared it in my enewsletter) close to the start of the school year, when a tragedy struck my small town: A teenager had disappeared and was found dead. It had a huge impact on everyone in my community, even those of us who didn’t know the… Read more »

Story Bite 27: Shifting Perspective

My writing tip for this month is shifting perspective: describing something that might inspire a strong negative reaction in people with positive words. This can be a fun linguistic game, but also a chance to think of how we view things beyond our own initial perspective. In this exercise, we’re going to: Describe something disgusting… Read more »

A Writer’s New Year’s Resolution

As I’m about to start the New Year with my third book coming up and another new book on the horizon, I want to vow something to myself as a writer. This is something I’ve struggled with from time to time over the past two years, and I know other authors struggle with it too…. Read more »

Year-End Writing Tips

These tips (which I first posted on Twitter tonight) are meant for people writing middle grade fiction. They come from discussions that I’ve had with my son about the books we’ve read and the books I’ve written. He’s an avid reader of middle grade fiction, and the first reader of every one of my books,… Read more »