Not that I'm a post a day LJer but thought to say:
Many books in bag(s) and lots of music (for flight) means that we'll be entertained for at least a few hours out of the 12 hour flight.
I'll be back later in Feb in order to bore everyone with lame-ass photos. I promise.
I have been lucky enough to get a copy of this from Bloomsbury UK and I have to say, it's gonna make my Best of 2010 list already. i kid you not.
Miss Jaclyn Dolamore can WRITE. Her style of writing is a dream to read - restrained yet evocative and beautiful. The main character is so clearly defined you can see her in your mind's eye. Just fabulous.
I'm going to do my damndest to try and get copies to give away on the main blog because the world needs to know that behind the whole debacle of the cover in the States is one of the best books of the year.
And uh, that's all!
Apart from this week, that is, where I've been swaddled at home, in quarantine with the dreaded H1N1 virus. Uch. But, I'm getting better. I'm coughing less, I almost have my voice back and I'm no longer running temperatures high enough to rival the sun.
Writing life has been up-down-up-down and I feel wracked with guilt. I've completed a sample chapter on a historical novel for kids aged 9+ for a packager and am quietly optimistic about it. I was part of their "database" of writers they approached for this. Who knows what may happen!
I've been tinkering with various projects named as follows:
Djinn - Book 2 - MG
Enigma - YA (contemporary)
Vassilly's Daughter - YA (contemporary)
I've also been revising Djinn. And it's hard work, it's kicked my butt all over the show but I'll wrestle with it till I'm happy with it. I've had amazing support from everyone on here and some friends who aren't. As they say in gangsta world and writing groups all over the show: #solidarity.
I can't remember if I've mentioned on LJ but I went mental a few months ago and bought a Mac computer.
I've never used one before but I fell under its lure. I closed my eyes, ordered it and hey presto, I am now a mac-user at home. It's gorgeous. It's large, it's easy to tidy away and it MAKES you want to write and use it.
I downloaded a neat little programme developed by two very dedicated chaps here in the UK called Scrivener and the photo at the top of this blogpost is only a small part of what make Scrivener so cool. Fully integrated it's a writers tool that goes beyond the call of awesome. I will honestly say that Scrivener was one of the reasons I decided to buy the Mac. Insane, or what!?
I'm still playing around with it and what's really good is that there are several very useful tutorials that you can use to make full use of it. I love the fact that all my research, including photos, websites, snippets, pdf's and other odds and ends lives in exactly the same folder as my story but it's separate in it's "Research file" and yet you can open it up and everything is there, attached to your corkboard - which is handy if you check through various items / add things in whilst writing.
Very handy little programme.
And uh, all the boy pics of course are research. :-)
I'm also after years of being a hoarder and obsessive "how to" book buyer, turfing out a lot of the books I've got stored upstairs. A lot of them have helped, a lot of them haven't. I'll be neatening up my writers bookshelf as I'm a much more confident writer than I was last year this time when I started off toying with writing Djinn. I'm not getting rid of these books because I feel that I'm suddenly this experienced writer - far from it. I'm getting rid of them because they've helped me as much as they're ever going to. Everything else is up to me and those books I know I can turn to time and time again for advice.
I'll do a post of what I keep!
As usual this has gone on way too long. Hope you've not fallen asleep. *prods snoring reader with stick*
- Location:beckenham, kent
- Music:mumford and sons
But I DID want to share this awesome clip with you from youtube - 28 YA authors give some advice about writing - and it's awesome advice, also a quirky little video.
Happy 2010 everyone - here's be being tougher, braver, stronger, faster...no, hold on, we're not bionic people...uh, more successful and awesome than before!
Regardless of religion or creed, take the time to be with friends and family, relish in everyone's quirky (if maddening) ways and remember: a reindeer is for life, not just Yule!
smUg FaCe!
- I'm travelling up by my ownself
- I'm staying in a hotel on my own
- I'll be attending talks and talking to people, on my own
People, this is huge! It is so scary. Am going somewhere completely different and new and talking to new people, experiencing new things. Did I mention I'm doing this on my own? You may laugh but sometimes I have this suspicion that without Mark to reign me in, I may behave very badly in public. Not do anything in a drunken stupour or anything like that but just fall on someone I really like and gush at them in this stream of squealing and petting. So, mantra for this coming weekend: deep breaths, no touching other conference attendees or stalking speakers, pretend you're normal.
*flails*
But then Mark will be doing the same thing. He's heading off to Thoughtbubble in Leeds this weekend. We were giggling about it this weekend past - how odd it's going to be being apart doing "other things" on different sides of the country. I do however suspect that his hotel will be a lot more flash than mine.
I have this vision of us getting home from our separate jaunts on Sunday evening and then proudly displaying people we've kidnapped and pillaged over the weekend. Said kidnapped and pillaged people will then be neatly displayed on the top of the bookshelf for visitors to admire.
Right, I've now utterly proven that I should not ever be allowed to go anywhere on my own. Oh, case in point, my conversation at a recent Gollancz party whilst chatting to Sam Sykes, one of their 2010 debut authors:
ME: You look a bit like Jack Black. I agree with Alex.
HIM: Really? I am not sure I am happy with that...should I be insulted?
ME: You shouldn't be – Jack Black was hot when he was younger.
HIM: !!!!
ME: Actually, more like Leo Di Craprio now, to be honest. It’s the eyes.
HIM: !!! What, I hate him.
ME: Oh, look at that: the earth just cracked open to swallow me.
Yes, people, I am afraid that this is what's being unleashed this coming weekend at Winchester.
- Mood:
giddy - Music:Nancy boy, Placebo
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kaz_mahoneyand I attended a talk last night held at Random House - it was hosted by Kids at Random House and also a group of kids called HeadSpace - actually, find a bit of promo for them below this cut and then continue reading some thoughts and ideas further on. ( Read more )
The young girl who moderated the talk asked the three authors - Keith Gray, Bali Rai and Anthony McGowan - a variety of really interesting questions. The authors were simply incredible - they joked, they chatted honestly and passionately about their writing, their careers and how they started out on the path they are on now.
Bali Rai was particularly engaging and funny. As the evening wound down, the authors all exorted those present, adults, kidults and younger folk to never give up on their writing, even if they receive rejection after rejection. Anthony mentioned that after he got tonnes of rejection notes on his novel Hellbent (which subsequently sold to Random House) he "became a woman" and wrote two well received light romance novels for women.
This made me think about focus and wanting it. Don't give up. Rethink your position and maybe consider doing something else. Challenge yourself - walk away from your high fantasy concept novel and try your hand at that bit of literary fluff you have stuffed in your drawer. I personally love paranormal fantasy, urban fantasy, fantasy, horror, action adventure, thrillers and crime novels. I would give my eyeteeth to be able to write urban fantasy the way that Charles de Lint or Midori Snyder does. I would love to be the next Joe Hill. I would love to somehow rub against Paul Sussman to get some mojo to write an adult action adventure. But I know my parameters and I know what makes me feel safe. And that safety is maybe not always a good thing.
Which is why I broke out of that safety zone and wrote something I know very little of (and by doing a huge amount of research in a very short space of time and tapping friends and colleagues who knew about certain aspects of various things like guns and breaking and entering) I had a complete blast, wrote Good Guys in one giant expulsion after tinkering with an outline and that got me into an anthology with people like Jordan Summers and Shannon K Butcher.
And here I am, about to share a huge secret with you guys. I utterly and irrevocably have fallen in love with a particular publisher's certain imprint and I would love the opportunity to write something for them.
I know, the mind boggles. What is Liz going to say NOW?
Little Black Dress Books. I know, people! Who would have thought it - but this little imprint with his go-get-em attitude and light romance novels, funky covers and dedicated writers, have really stolen my heart. I have fallen in love with them. They are my Mills & Boon. The contemporary settings, real characters and situations just make me love them even more. I have now read three of them, and I have just today received three more.
Maybe in the new year I trot out my Liz Muir pseudonym and write something for them! Even if it goes nowhere, it is practice! And we all know what practice gets us...yes, more practice!
I forget which hardman movie this is from but: never give up, never surrender, just get bigger guns and take 'em all out!
Uhm, I'm now not sure that line works for writing but hey, you knowwhatimeanright?
I'm sitting on around 7,897 words. Not bad, but not good either.
But then life's been busy, various events and late evenings. I've been struck down by a stupid migraine and oh, and tied into that...hello procrastination!
And tonight, yet another night of not writing due to event at publishers. However, the weekend looks like it may have to be the time I make up for being a lazy so-and-so. Mark's going to the rugby on Saturday so that leaves me at loose end both days. And I will have to get myself out of the house, in order to write. I can't write at home, on my own - I will find something else to do. Like bake. Or watch tv. Or sleep. Or surf the interwebs. I have to admit, I think I've cured myself from Twitter. I am still on there but maybe ten minutes a day as opposed to say...eight / nine hours solid.
How do you guys stay focussed? Please, whatever it is, can I have some?
- Mood:
crushed
Mark and I have had a busy day - I am utterly exhausted.
We went shopping for a new coat as the one that he has at the moment is so big it would fit Mr. Valuev (pictured above - in excess of 7ft tall).
But this isn't about buying clothes or having chai latte's at Caffe Nero or even buying books at Waterstone's, although we did all of those things too.
It's about writing, of course and observation.
Whilst sitting in Caffe Nero, another couple took their seats slightly behind me, right in Mark's line of sight. We were chatting about where to go next and how to avoid crowds when he starting smirking. He then explained that the guy behind us, dressed neatly in a pair of jeans and nice striped shirt just betrayed exactly how fastidious he is by doing one small thing only:
He took the napkin he got with his coffee, wet the end with the bottle of water he had bought and wiped the rim of the cup, lifted the cup, wiped the bottom, set it aside, then wiped the saucer it sat on, before neatly tidying the napkin into a tiny square and setting that aside.
Now I'm not sure why he did this - did he accidentally spill some of his drink onto his saucer - and frankly I don't care. Just this one single observed event already made me have an opinion about him. I mentally filed it away for use in characterisation for another project.
Similarly, outside when we were walking back to the car, a relatively handsome guy with shocking blue hair in what should have been a mohawk but it hung down instead, was walking along in run of the mill "alternative"clothing. He looked intimidating and most people just made sure they edged past him. He had on a leather jacket with this embossed eagle on the back. He looked badass. You know what he did? He strolled up to this group of elderly ladies having a chat on a bench set on the high street and stopped in front of them. The one elderly lady - perfectly purple rinsed hair, tightly curled - stood up with this smile made of pure sunshine and this big rough looking guy folded her into the warmest purest hug of happiness. Her friends looked slightly horrified. I stole that image.
Driving home Mark and I were chatting about our writing. I am keen to read what he's done this past week and I confessed I stupidly forgot my memory stick at the office with Vassilly's Daughter on it so I've been unable to work on it today.
Mark then said he is keen to hear more of Vassilly's Daughter and that I should make sure to finish it. I naturally overflowed with smiles and love but he then shook his head and said, no, more than loyalty this is because he found the story really interesting and he likes Nika and wants to see what she gets up to.
Hmm. No pressure then!
So I asked him: Can he tell the difference between my writing in Curse of the Djinn and Vassilly's Daughter?
Again an emphatic nod. Yes, Djinn is a caper, fun and relatively lighthearted with two fun characters that you can't help but like, whilst Vassilly's Daughter is promising to be something more in the line of Andy McNab meets Mike Carey in Felix Castor.
Imagine my face! Wow - not sure about the Andy McNab analogy but Mike Carey...*crazy dancing on the inside*
So, whilst Mark gets up at half past four in the morning tomorrow to go fishing, I'll roll out of bed at around eight, maybe nine a.m. and I will be doing BIC.
If you see me on twitter or on here, chase me back to Nika's story! I. Must. Write.
I received official okay from editor Trish last night that I can announce it. *flails with happiness"
So, pop by my "official" writer's website: http://lizdejager.co.uk to check out the good news...and laugh at my pseudonym for writing adult fiction.
- Mood:
ecstatic
I've joined the "My name is Liz and I'm a Twit" brigade - no Twitter for a week, from 1st - 7th November. I don't mind not posting on Facebook cos I don't really use that much. But Twitter - zomg, I thought I was never going to be able to cope. It's what I did - both at home and at work.
And yannow, I have coped. Today is the 3rd day. Without Twitter. Admittedly I can't tell people about new reviews or competitions I'm running on my review blog, but hopefully my existing readers will pick up on that and maybe even some of them will kindly link to it on Twitter on my behalf.
I've also gone a step further. No website surfing! I'm only using my RSS feeds into my outlook to catch up on blogs and news sites. And do you know what's really cool? There is so much that I've missed out on and now I've got the chance to catch up.
This whole internet abstenance thing is a very good exercise for me - we are going to South Africa next year for over 2 weeks. That means NO Internet / computer access at all. That is a LONG time. A very long time!
But I digress. The not being on twitter / internet has really helped with the writing. Did a lovely amount on Sunday which I'm proud of, met with
esssjay last night and chatted for ages, so no writing, but I am doing writing (I have to) tonight as tomorrow night I have got a SCBWI social. It's a hard life. But so much fun!
What is the difference between URBAN FANTASY and PARANORMAL as genres in fiction.
I ask, because I am curious. I've seen elsewhere, on a submission guideline for a book packaging company that they handle both urban fantasy and paranormal.
I also asked
esssjayearlier on this morning as we are meeting up this evening what she thought it to be and she brought up the following definition: Urban fantasy - where the imaginary world is part of the real world(no doors/mirrors that lead to another world) and the action happens all around you like Cassandra Clare's City of Bones.
Paranormal - is where vampires, ghosts, werewolves aren't part of "real" society and your hero/heroine has to fight / discover / become / fall in love with/ kill (etc) any / all of these beings.
But, is this right? What do you think? Any imput would be very welcome.
Oh, as an aside, this is how much I wrote yesterday on Vassilly's Daughter, the new YA in progres.
The full total stands in excess of 10,000 words but the rest doesn't count as it is prior to Indywrimo!
Something really crappy happened yesterday - my entire purse with all my cards got nabbed straight out of my bag whilst in Starbucks.
kaz_mahoney and I were being complete geeks, as usual about books, writing, authors, and what may be...when it happened. Luckily for me, I noticed it soon after, rang hubby dearest who in turn rang the bank and cancelled the cards. It turns out the grimy thieves tried to withdraw cash from my credit card within minutes of stealing it. But because they thought they had the right pin-number they were quite brazen too and they tried four times going from a big cash withdrawl to smaller. They failed to withdraw anything though as they pin they used was incorrect.
But, that left me with no money - no means to get home, nothing. My husband works on the other side of London in the City and he can't very well up and come and collect me. Fortunately I was at work when it happened so I could borrow money from pettycash to buy a new Oyster card. I didn't need anything else but as I was mulling it all over in my head, I realised how dependent I've become on my "ready" cash of my bank card. And how mobile I was because of my Oyster card.
Can you imagine what that must feel like if something like that - a robbery - had happened to a younger person? If they got robbed and they had nowhere to turn - people don't listen and they genuinely don't care. I've seen it before and have been guilty of walking past someone saying they only need £x to get home, because I thought they were chancing it.
What a horrible feeling and experience. And definitely something to channel in a future WIP should my protags ever end up on the run, with no money. How do you run for your life from baddies with no resources?
Anyway! They got no money out of it and hopefully I will soon be the proud owner of a new set of cards. Actually, you know what was the worst thing? My SCBWI membership card was in that purse, along with my Waterstones card! I actually rang them up - Waterstone's, that is - and got them to transfer my points onto another card and to post it onto me. Bloody thieves! No one gets discounts on books except me!
Also, beware any dodgy person in my next book, you will be eviscerated, oh yes, you will. And there will be pain, lots of pain. ;-)
- Mood:
angry
Everyone I know online – published and unpublished authors – are abuzz about NaNoWriMo ‘09. Who will opt in, who will opt out? Will I do it, will you do it?
I won my first completion from them last year I’m very proud to say but to be honest, what I completed was utterly vile drivel and got itself cut to shreds and is lying in tatters on a spare hard drive somewhere at home. Some parts of the writing I’m astoundingly proud of, some parts…not so much.
Nano is taking place, obviously, over November. The timing works quite well as it’s invariably colder and darker and it gives you a chance to snuggle in with your computer or laptop to BIC (butt in chair) and write.
My friend Karen Mahoney – soon to be published by Flux in the States – has decided to slightly restructure the original nanowrimo idea, putting a new spin on it, one with a more maneagable word count.
- Nanowrimo = 50,000 words
- Kaznowrimo = 30,000 words
Kaznowrimo works out to 1,000 words a day. So that’s not too bad. But then, Nanwrimo works out to 1,666 words a day. Which to be fair, is still not too bad. But looking at those two figures…the one that looks possible is 1,000 words. It’s a long chatty email to a friend. It can be done.
So, this year I won’t be doing Nanowrimo but I will be doing Kaznowrimo. Not just to support Kaz in this, because I will be doing that too, but also because it will allow me to play around with an idea for a contemporary (supernatural/urban fantasy) young adult novel that’s been bugging me for a little while now. I am planning to revise even more on Djinn (shows bleeding stubby fingers) but it will also allow me a chance to get rid of my pent-up frustration about not writing-writing, you know? I get to figure out where this new story wants to go. I have the opportunity and luxury to do this as I don’t have deadlines to work to, except the ones I’ve set for myself. It’s also a way to channel creativity, to work on something else apart from Djinn which has been my life for 7 solid months, thus far.
I also wanted to mention something else that I’ve dicovered. It’s a group called Million Monkeys. They are on Facebook but what you need to know is: they are London based. Mondays and Wednesday nights they meet up at the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank. A whole group of writers – they sit down at their little tables and they write from 6 – 9 pm. After nine you can either pack up and go or you can hang around for a chat and a drink. I’ve not been myself, but I’m thinking I may very well join them this coming Monday – it’s “enforced” writing with no excuses. I will drag my revisions for Djinn with me, plug myself into my music and continue with the revisions.
Then tomorrow – Saturday – will be my first ever SCBWI British Isles and I am genuinely looking forward to that. It sounds very interesting and I am hoping to not be picked on by the tutor for sending in possibly the most dull chapter from Djinn as an example of what I felt I struggled with. But we see. I shall report back!
PS: my word counter here says that I’ve writter 577 words in this blog post. Not bad eh? Half my Kaznowrimo done!
Mirrored from Curse of the Djinn.
Advice, that is.
I got stuck in this “yeah-yeah-I-know” attitude about a lot of things when it comes to writing. And I don’t mean just whilst I was writing Djinn.
I have received some simply amazing feedback from friends about the ms – not all good, I have to add, but genuinely amazing because the feedback made me think. It made me think about Nicholas’s life thus far, how to introduce him as a solid character without relying on too much narrative because face it: it’s dull. Action is where it’s at, baby!
So – are you ready for advice? Can you take it?
I joined the Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCWBI UK) last week and it so happened to coincide with the London Social and I tagged along.
Apart from having met a tranche of brand new potential friends and courageous writers from all walks of life, the one lady, Miriam Halahmy looked at me with this wise expression when I was talking about revising Djinn etc and she said: I have one book that I use “Self-editing for Writers” and it’s brilliant. It’s all you’ll need.
So, bearing that in mind (see Liz take advice, see Liz learn from the advice, see Liz be eternally grateful for advice) I bought a copy from Amazon and went through the first couple of pages today with a new moleskine entitled “Workbook – General”.
Frack.
Where was this book all my life? How did I miss it? Clear, concise, to the point. Within the first few pages I knew this was the book I need when looking critically at my own work, be it Djinn, Enigma (pretty name, isn’t it?) or For the Thrill.
Packed chockablock full of advice and intelligent advice and a no nonsense way of writing, I am sitting on my chair here at work, with a stupid feeling of elation in my little heart.
But then I also strongly believe that books and advice come to you when you’re ready for them. A bit chaos theory, I know, but it’s something I’ve thought about in the past.
That’s why this blog is entitled: can you take it? It’s also the whole thing of being a little bit blind as some things “never” apply to you…until it does. Will you be clever enough to pick it up and make work of it?
Mirrored from Curse of the Djinn.
The above is our newly put-together dvd shelf which we inherited from our friends Almay and Darren (they are clearing home as they are relocating to South Africa) - we have a lot of dvd's and every single one of those is a landmark memory for us. But our books are well in excess of this - a lot of them are unread. A lot of the already read ones are packed in boxes to make space for unread ones. I luxuriate in my lovely novels and laugh in the face of our friends who just don't get it. But I admit I have a problem - maybe an intervention is required?
Yesterday, Charlie Brooker put up this post on The Guardian's website and you know, after reading it, I felt ashamed and elated at the same time. Because so much of what he writes about is true for both Mark and myself. But I refuse to give in.
This made me laugh out loud though:
- Mood:
chipper
ariberk. He is charming, erudite, stupendously intelligent and a source of inspiration. I was flicking through my facebook updates this morning and came across this conversation he had with someone on his wall and I hope I'm not contravening any laws or anything but I will post this link to him so he and his friend Traci can be aware of it. The conversation goes a bit like this:
Traci: Ah! Thank you so much...that makes so much sense with reading AND music. I find that happening to me whenever I listen to music too. I think I've been afraid of your suggestion with reading because of plagiarism...but good to know it wont bear a resemblance...
"It's being inspired by words, their sound and color, and going back to whatever you're writing and seeing it with new eyes."
Wow. Just wow.
- Mood:
contemplative
I am currently doing a lot of homework whilst my friend looks over Djinn.
Every day I visit all my RSS feeds, I’ve subscribed to Publishers Marketplace (definitely worth it for $20 a month) and I look at querytracker.com and compile lists of agents to approach once Djinn is ready to go out to into the wide world on its query quest.
I am thinking of looking at both US and UK agents. It makes sense to me at least. It gives Djinn a bigger chance…no, I am lying. It gives ME, Djinn’s creator, a better chance to hopefully get an agent who will care enough about Djinn (and me) to get us a publishing deal.
One of the blog posts I stumbled across is one on the newly discovered The Big Bad Book Blog where they talk about Seven Guidelines on Genre and Market Trends. In this article you will find a lot of sobering information. For instance, what grabbed my attention is this:
Choose one genre. You have a dozen ideas in as many genres? That’s wonderful. Now choose one. Yes, just one. You may not decide which one it is until after writing a couple of books and getting a feel for your style and strengths and even interests. But it is very rare to successfully cross genres, and then only once you’ve established yourself in one. When you query agents or publishers, choose your best writing. Be honest.
This little paragraph then links to this excellent article by the always eloquent and always forthright agent Rachelle Gardner’s blog. In this article she gives the reason why you need to look at staying in one genre:
This is a marketing issue, first and foremost. If you want to publish books, attract a loyal readership, and have long-term success as an author, then you’ll need to pick a genre, do it well, and keep doing it over and over. Simple as that. All the arguing in the world and all the talent in the world is not going to change this reality.
There are a tranche of comments below this article and all of them make valid points, such as what about writing heroic or traditional fantasy as Mike Swordbrandisher whilst also writing paranormal romance or urban fantasy novels as Talulah Honeysuckle? How do you pull this off?
But back to the genre writing: it’s something I keep wondering myself. I love so many genres and have written short stories in a variety of them. I love middle grade and YA novels and I like writing for them, but what I’ve come to realise is that people see these two groups as GENRES. And they are not. Middle Grade and YA = target audience. And THAT is where your specialising comes into play. I think.
Within these target audiences, you find your genres. For instance, as Sarah Prineas so eloquenty said in 140 letters on Twitter a few moments ago: ”genre” is “paranormal romance” or “urban fantasy” or “thriller” or “horror” whilst the ”target audience” is “readers of paranormal romance, urban fantasy, thriller or horror.”
Clear?
So what about writing under two different names for two different genres? TIME. Baby, time’s gotta be on your side. Can you steadily and seriously maintain a writing schedule that will enable having two books being published a year, maybe even more – to support your different personas? Think about it – unless you have a tardis, or amazing managerial skills, then no – chances are that everything you do will suck. Because you won’t have time honing and perfecting and specialising. Think about it. Think carefully. As much as I would like to wear a variety of hats like the Mad Hatter I won’t be able to. I would love to write an epic fantasy series – I love reading these and they are still a staple diet. Or even urban fantasy – man, since the first time I picked up a copy of Charles de Lint’s Moonheart, my little heart beat a tattoo for stories where myths and legends stalked modern cities. Or maybe I can do paranormal romance – say what you will, the market is huge, the authors’ talents are wide and varied and it is fun reading. I love kick-butt heroines , magic, creatures that go bump in the night and impossibly complicated relationships.
And as much as I love these established adult genres, I still think – and hope that – my talent lies writing for the younger folk as a target audience. Because the cool thing about writing books for younger folk here in the UK at least, is that their bookshelves are not catergorised into different genres – age yes, genre no. Not yet. You have all the above fantastic genres (maybe not quite that much paranormal romance) lobbed into one massive kids’ section and you can go wild and read anything your little heart desires. And that’s magic because like Forest said: you never know what you’re gonna get.
About the picture used: I stumbled across this picture by this vastly talented artist called Aly Fell – this is the blog it came from. Please do not take any of the art, without linking back to the blog. This is Aly’s main site - I am green with envy!
Mirrored from Curse of the Djinn.
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Ari: Yeah, it's not about writing like who you're reading, or writing things down that they have already said. It's about being inspired by words, by their sound and color, and going back to whatever you're writing and seeing it with new eyes, new possibilities. It's also about a healthy literary diet. Hight quality words go in, high quality words come out.