There are many types of developmental work authors find helpful as they write their manuscripts. As fall approaches (and perhaps you get excited about all the free writing time you’ll have once the kids are back
Category: Writing Fiction
Writing fiction for adults, teens and kids. Topics include the building blocks of plot, character and setting. Next, tips on drafting, revision and editing. Also includes in-depth looks at verse novels, mysteries, and contemporary fiction.
Losing perspective, following the crowd, fighting too hard for a freedom you don’t understand…such things result in stories of teens behaving in ways even they, perhaps, never imagined or intended. Here are a few sharply written,
Back-to-school time is fast approaching. Time to download the school supply lists and make sure everyone’s on track with their summer reading assignments. As the mom of two dyslexic sons, this last task can sometimes be
In the midst of working on a new manuscript, I suddenly found myself asking a question that SHOULD have had an obvious answer—especially because the story I am telling involves manipulation, crime, even murder: WHO IS
There is a curious correlation between loss and tricks of the mind. Do we use our imaginations to battle grief? To deny it? To make it make some kind of horrible sense? Here are three gorgeous
Some people like to beat the heat with swimming pools and frosty beach drinks. For me, summer’s scorching temperatures are best cooled by shivering through the pages of scary, suspense-filled books! My copy of THE FIXER
KEEP ON WRITING. AND KEEP ON SMILING!
Okay. I’ll admit it: I’ve been a closet audio book fan for years. I haven’t mentioned this because, as a writer of verse novels, I felt as though I should be embarrassed to admit that I
Airplane rides, lakeside hours, WiFi-free cottages…summer offers myriad settings and opportunities for reading. I’m still mired in end-of-school-year commitments, bandaging my heels from the paper cut nips of freelance deadlines. But a girl can dream, right?
Elana Johnson is a writer, teacher, tech wiz, and publishing pro extraordinaire. Today we celebrate her latest traditionally-published romance, UNTIL SUMMER ENDS, but Elana has written YA fiction (dystopians, verse novels, romances) for publishers large and