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#WritersRead: April Theme

Banned books are those that have been challenged (by an individual or group) and removed from schools and/or libraries in order to 'protect children'. Sometimes, books have been banned out of genuine concern for students, other times groups have used the label of 'concern' to block students' exposure to diverse [...]

2020-04-02T21:48:19+00:00March 30th, 2020|Writers Read Book Club|0 Comments

March Book Reviews

March #WritersRead Book Club Chat: Thursday, March 26th @ 7pm EST Join on Twitter! Details on how to join here This month we all read 'Children’s and middle grade stories' to see what we could learn about story craft from these books written for younger folks—especially since [...]

2023-09-01T22:18:25+00:00March 23rd, 2020|Writers Read Book Club|2 Comments

6 Tips for Getting Better Feedback

Writing can feel like a solitary act which you must struggle through, hunched over at your computer desk, entirely alone. This is far from the truth. In fact, outside eyes on your work are critical to telling the story you envision. Writers write for an audience just as [...]

2023-09-01T22:19:14+00:00March 6th, 2020|Writing Life|0 Comments

#WritersRead: March Theme

Children's and middle grade stories have all the same elements of longer, more complicated novels, but in a condensed format. As writers, we can benefit from studying the way they're structured. Keeping stories short and simple is a bigger feat than you'd think. This month, we're THRILLED to welcome our [...]

2020-04-02T21:49:35+00:00February 29th, 2020|Writers Read Book Club|0 Comments

How to Worldbuild Cultures

Start with cultural values + environment. One of the reasons we read fantasy and science fiction is to experience new cultures and world views. We crave interesting governments, bizarre moral codes, and unique rituals. We’re fascinated by how these cultures survive in environments that are foreign to us—huge [...]

2023-09-01T22:20:01+00:00February 23rd, 2020|Plotting and Planning|0 Comments
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