Checklist before starting next novel:
POV Character? Check
Sidekick? Check
Villain? Check
Quirky secondary characters? Check
Plot outline? Check
Story Beat Sheet? Check
Voice? Check
Premise? Check
Stakes? Check
Hmm. What else am I missing?
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Please join us for an ALAN Online BookChat to discuss TWISTED with the author, Laurie Halse Anderson .
Date: Wednesday, 7/25/07 Time: 9:00 PM Eastern URL: http://alan-ya.org/bookchat/flashchat.php
Here’s more about TWISTED:
High school senior Tyler Miller used to be the kind of guy who faded into the background—average student, average looks, average dysfunctional family. But since he [...]
The third Potter book was out before I read the first one, which I received in paperback as a give-away at the ALAN Breakfast. After reading it on the plane home, I bought the other two books. For Christmas, we bought a (at the time) complete sets for our families. For books 4,5, and 6, [...]
Over a year ago, I came up with the idea of setting a screwball mystery in Japan, during the festival of setsubun (in which children run about in scary masks while pelting folks with soybeans). I entered a first chapter of Yamabushi and the Seven Gods of Happiness in the smart writers contest and [...]
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I’m ramping up to start a new novel, a mystery. Plotting out elements. Brainstorming characters. Looking through photos for settings and physical traits. Who am I kidding? I’ve never written a mystery before; I have no idea how to do it. In fact, all memory of even how to [...]
You’re Anne of Green Gables!
by L.M. Montgomery
Bright, chipper, vivid, but with the emotional fortitude of cottage [aged cheddar, actually]
cheese, you make quite an impression on everyone you meet. You’re impulsive, rash,
honest, and probably don’t have a great relationship with your parents [as they are both deceased..]. People hurt
your feelings constantly, but your brazen honestly doesn’t [...]
