So, this post is to help you find your writing style or voice. When we first get started writing, we are usually given a lot of resources for how to plot with things like three-act structure, how to create conflict, or world-building. But as we’re learning all of these writing techniques, we’re also trying to… Continue reading Finding Your Writing Style
WBP is hosting another post for DVPit’s blog hop this week! #DVpit, the Twitter pitch event for marginalized creators, is returning for its fifth run this April. In preparation for the main event, Writer’s Block Party is hosting a guest post from author and literary agent Hannah Fergesen as part of the #DVpit blog hop!… Continue reading What Do You Have To Lose?: Infusing Your Characters With Personal Stakes | DVPit Blog Hop
We are so excited to host the next post in the #DVPit blog hop! #DVpit, the Twitter pitch event for marginalized creators, is returning for its fifth run this April. In preparation for the main event, Writer’s Block Party is hosting a guest post from YA author and CAKE Literary co-founder Sona Charaipotra as part… Continue reading On Building Plot: Three Act Structure in Fiction
In our “Reading Recs for…” series we’ll recommend reads for certain topics that we run into often. One of the most fun and also most painful parts of building an epic fantasy world is world-building. (To be fair, all genres should have good world-building). THE BELLES by Dhonielle Clayton why we rec: This world was created… Continue reading Reading Recs for World Building
Note: This post is done in a roundtable style where members of Writer’s Block Party discuss a topic together. Moderator & Editor: Amanda Foody QUESTION ONE: What do you define as foreshadowing? Is it a clue? Is it one of those “…” cliffhanger lines? Easter eggs about what is to come? ASHLEY: I think foreshadowing… Continue reading Roundtable #11: Foreshadowing
Oftentimes I feel like the writing advice is that we all need to write as fast as we can—write that crappy first draft in seven days or else what are you doing, don’t you want to be a real writer? Sure, there are a lot of times I’ve gotten angry at myself for not writing… Continue reading Letting Scenes Sit On The Back-Burner
So you’ve read about how I put my nonfiction book proposal together here. But what about my query? I have two different versions of my query. The personalized queries, in which I moved some stuff around to accomodate the personalization & flow, and the main query that I used, which you can see below. The personalized… Continue reading The Non-fiction Query
I got my agent with a book proposal. The proposal was for my nonfiction pop culture book about the history of Black women on TV. I read a book about how to put together a proposal. That book was Thinking Like Your Editor: How to Write Great Serious Nonfiction and Get It Published by Susan… Continue reading How to Write A Nonfiction Book Proposal
Hey WBP! I’m back with a new feature called “WBP SURVEY,” where we survey the writers of WBP on a topic or question. Today’s question is: What is your average chapter word count for your novel(s)? I personally agonize over my chapter word counts, mostly because I want them to be uniform in length. But… Continue reading WBP Survey: Average Chapter Length
You don’t always want to shock your readers. Sometimes, huge twists can work not because the reader is completely blindsided, but because they’ve been anticipating them. Anticipation is THE fundamental story element. It’s what gets the reader to keep reading. Big twists can work even if the reader knows they’re coming as long as the characters remain in… Continue reading How To Use Foreshadowing to Create Anticipation
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