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Or getting in a plane again. This time to Istanbul, which is a city I’ve never been before. Am I excited? Yes, I am. But it does mean that blogging may not be as every single day as I like it to be. Might be a couple of weeks before normal service resumes. On the other hand, there may be ...
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On the Road
I’m very sorry that some reviewers of YA were upset or worried by yesterday’s post. I truly was not talking about you. If you’re reading my blog. odds are you know and care about the genre, which is something the people who write those kinds of reviews are often lacking.
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Books
Twilight
L. J. Smith
Stephenie Meyer
I have a rule that I never respond to bad reviews. I have blogged on several occasions about why I think doing so is pointless. However, I can’t help noticing a certain tenor in many Paranormal/Fantasy YA reviews lately. Everything seems to be talked about in terms of Stephenie ...
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Twilight
Stephenie Meyer
justinelarbalestier.com - 48 hours ago
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Sarah Rees Brennan pointed me to this article
about Gone with the Wind by Elizabeth Meryment. It...
annoyed me. So prepare yourself for a rant. Basically Meryment argues that all criticism of Gone with the Wind (book and film) over the last few decades ...
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The Problem with Gone with the Wind
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SF Signal
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justinelarbalestier.com - 3 days ago
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This is it the very last tip of
NaNoWriMo 2009! At the end of this day you...
will be done! Woohoo! Of course, you’re not really done. Not even if you managed to finish a whole novel in one month. Though if you did, congrats! I’ve never ...
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NaNo Tip No. 30: Rewriting
justinelarbalestier.com - 3 days ago
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One of my highlights of NCTE was doing
a panel on blogging with Laurie Halse Anderson ,...
Maureen Johnson, Barbara O’Connor and Lisa Yee . The panel was put together and moderated by Denise Anderson , who was just splendid and had done a tonne of ...
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Blogging & Teaching
It’s my second last NaNoWriMo post! Wow, that went fast. You’ve all been at it for 28 days now. 1 Which leads me to suspect that some of you may be feeling quite sore about now.
Writing, like any job that involves spending hours in front of a computer, has a high injury rate. ...
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Only four more days of NaNoWriMo to go, and I’m noticing that a lot of people are beating up on themselves. They haven’t met their deadlines. They haven’t got enough words. Their words aren’t good enough. The muse is missing! Etc, etc.
Welcome to the wonderful world of ...
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justinelarbalestier.com - 8 days ago
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Lately many white writers have been asking me
about writing characters who aren’t white. Quite a few...
are doing NaNoWriMo, so I decided I’d put my responses into the NaNo tips. I’ve been asked the following questions: Why should I ...
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NaNo Tip No. 24: Writing While White
Yesterday Scott talked about the importance of rereading books you love to figure out how the writer made you react the way you did. He advised rereading good books. Today I’m going to recommend reading and examining bad books.
This may sound like strange advice but often you learn more ...
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I’m in Philadelphia at the National Council of Teachers of English convention . Such larks!
If you’re here you can find me in the following places today:
Saturday, November 21st
10:00-10:45AM
Signing at Andersons (booth #544)
2:00-3:00PM
Signing at the Bloomsbury (booth ...
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Jay Asher
Sarah Dessen
Justine Larbalestier
The Road
The Hope
It’s day twenty and I’ve seen some talk on NaNoNoWriMo blogs of muses showing up or, more often, not. I’m sure for some of you muses are a very useful metaphor for your creative process. However, sitting on your arse waiting for them to show up? Frequently not a good approach ...
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I keep being asked the same basic question about Liar so I thought that I would answer it here before pushing it across to the Liar FAQ . My answer is not a spoiler as it touches on stuff that is revealed in the first few pages.
The question is:
Q: What do I know is true that Micah tells ...
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Liar
The Hope
justinelarbalestier.com - 10 days ago
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Yesterday’s post led to Kilks suggesting that I
base a NaNo tip on it, which I am...
now doing. One of the biggest flaws in beginner writing is a reliance on stereotypes and cliches which produces characters who never come to life because they ...
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NaNo Tip No. 18: Breaking with Stereotypes
justinelarbalestier.com - 4 days ago
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Recently, the brilliant Sarah Rees Brennan talked about
her love of romance and reviewed a few in...
her inimitable style 1 She mentioned in passing her least favourite kind of heroine: I truly hate the Blank Page Heroine. She is in a lot of ...
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Blank Page Heroine
I know I wrote a whole tip telling you to ease up on yourself and expect badness in your first draft . I encouraged you to just pound it out and leave the editing till later.
Sadly, that doesn’t work for every writer. Nor does it work for every book. Although I bashed out a crappy zero ...
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Liar
Because I just had a long discussion with some friends about what constitutes being crassly commercial I’ve decided now is the time to let you know where you can buy signed books of mine. What? Some people write and ask me that, you know. Also it’s Sunday no one will notice me being ...
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Yes, it’s time for some more vaguely contradictory advice. So first a word on that. Here’s why this tip is not contradictory. No one technique or strategy works for every writer. They don’t even work for one writer all the time. There are times when the only way I can get any ...
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This year I’ve been getting more and more people asking about ebook editions of my novels. This is my general response to that query.
First of all: you’re asking the wrong person. My publishers are in charge of the electronic rights to my novels. If you’re curious John ...
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Liar
justinelarbalestier.com - 21 days ago
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It’s day 12 and on the NaNoWriMo blogs
there’s much talk of word counts missed, scenes not...
written, and of generally falling behind. Now that is to be expected. As previously mentioned I do not think you should be freaking out about word ...
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NaNo Tip No. 12: Turn the Internet off
