This was recommended by my group leader at the @Tin_House Young Adult Novel Workshop. Diving in!
This was recommended by my group leader at the @Tin_House Young Adult Novel Workshop. Diving in!
"How do I personally know when a manuscript is saleable? When it is great. Emily Dickinson said, "If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry." When I read a manuscript that performs a similar partial decapitation on me… I want to tell everyone about it and have everyone read it."
#mg #ya #cherylbklein
This.
Book.
Any novelist on earth will benefit from its generosity and vision and after my writer's book group Skyped with the author, I am even more impressed.
I love two things about this: first, it's okay not to critique-as-you-write. I needed to hear that. Second, "this is your opportunity not to say what you meant, but to hear what an unbiased reader took from it." If only I could convince my students of the latter... #amwriting
I borrowed this from the library but will have to buy a copy. Excellent craft advice and exercises. #amwriting
Did I finish breakfast already? I didn't even notice, busy reading the introduction to this lovely new book.