QOTW: Are you affected by your story’s own tragedies?
This week’s question is from Allie, who asks: Do you ever find yourself crying over the death of one of your characters? Or angry over a betrayal in the story? Even though you are the one who has...
View ArticleHAPPY POST HARRY POTTER!
A good number of you have probably seen the very last Harry Potter movie by now. (How many of you cried? Be honest!) Some of us here at LTWF have seen it, too, but a number of us are holding out until...
View ArticleWriting the 2nd Book in a Trilogy
by Kat Zhang So, I’m almost done with the first draft of my outline for Book #2. Considering I just turned in my edits for WHAT’S LEFT OF ME (eee! New title still makes me all tingly, lol), it may or...
View ArticleQOTW: Keeping Personal Bias from Your Stories
This week’s question is from Ramani, who asks: How do you keep personal bias from your stories? Like, I’ve noticed that my relationship with my mother often reflects on my character’s mother. ~~~...
View ArticleThe Great Big Post of Querying
So, recently, a reader emailed me asking me how I went about querying and finding my agent. I’d actually meant to put up a post about this a long time ago, but the old post included my actual query,...
View ArticleQOTW: When to do Research
This week’s question is from Rae, who asks: When you have to do a lot of research for a novel, do you do it beforehand or after you finish the first draft? ~~~ So far, I haven’t written anything that...
View ArticleQOTW: Living as a Character
This week’s question is: If you could live the life of a single character for one day, whose story would you want? ~~~ If I could live a character’s life for one day, I’d definitely want to be Menolly...
View ArticleNaNoWriMo Live Blog Tomorrow! And you’re invited!
(depending on where you live, this might actually be happening…I dunno, today. Don’t look at me to calculate timezones ) ETA: Alright, this is Kat here going to bed, so I won’t be updating this until...
View ArticleSOMETHING STRANGE & DEADLY cover!
In case you missed it yesterday, Susan unveiled the cover for SOMETHING STRANGE & DEADLY on her blog yesterday. We think you all ought to go take a look, because it’s gorgeous
View ArticlePub(lishing) Crawl Launch!!
It’s the day we’ve all been waiting for, folks! After a month of hiatus (during which we all missed you readers like crazy), us here at Let The Words Flow are officially Pub(lishing) Crawl! But it’s...
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