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Faith Hunter 
A guy the AKA (Gwen Hunter) knows, a lawyer who did some work for us back in the 1990s, asked me/us to read his book opening. Actually it was 16 pages of concept thrown onto the pages, single spaced, a lot for shock value. It read like a short story that needed a lot of [...]
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Mindy Klasky 
Earlier this week, a meme swept the Internet, permitting authors to plug in chunks of text, click a button, and determine which famous author’s writing most resembles that chunk. (Which famous *male* author – with two exceptions – but that’s another blog post…) Ever the sheep, I tested myself against the rest of the Internet [...]
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Misty Massey 
One of the most common questions we’re asked at book signings and cons and other public appearances is “What are you reading?” It’s also one of my favorite questions, because when I read something I like, I loveloveLOVE to tell everyone about it. Since AJ is prepping for Tuesday’s paperback release of Act [...]
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Faith Hunter 
We’ve been asked here at MW to share our tips on how we convey emotion with telling the reader what the character is feeling in the scene.
Examples of telling:
She was sad.
Her heart broke at his words.
His depression worsened.
John’s rage increased.
The way a lot of new writers (and published writers who get lazy) handle emotion is [...]
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David B. Coe 
Often in our discussions here at MW, I resort to making points by citing not only books, but also movies. All of us do it, really. Look at any of our recent threads and you’ll see movie and book titles thrown together in examples as if the two are interchangeable. And there [...]
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Misty Massey 
When I was a teenager (back in the Dark Ages) there was no such thing as a “young adult” book. There were various age-appropriate levels of children’s books, and somewhere along the way I found myself reading the grown-up books. I couldn’t tell you when “young adult” first hit as a market genre, [...]