That’s an abbreviation for young adult fiction. It is also a descriptor because it can fit into nearly any genre. There is YA science fiction, YA Dystopian, YA fantasy, and so on. What makes it YA is just that the protagonist(s) is/are teenager(s). The main goal of this literary genre is that it gives young people more […]
Category: Writing Adventure
Preparing for NaNoWriMo
(I began this post before this event; I’ll state what I didn’t do.) … or Camp NaNoWriMo, which I’m doing right now… which is why I haven’t updated this site in a week. Here are some tips to achieve your word goal in the month (50, 000 for NaNo, variable for Camp – I’m writing […]
Camp NaNoWriMo 2016 – How Did I Do?
Not as good as I’d like, but still good. Let me explain: My final word tally was 9015 words out of a goal of 20, 000. That’s the part not so good. I didn’t have my story outline done, so I lost valuable time ‘pantsing‘. Regular readers of this blog know I’m not effective […]
Why I’m an indie author
If I was under a contract to a big company, I could only write the books that I was under contract for. I could write other things, but I’d likely have to sit on them for a different deal, or have to publish them under another publisher, under a pseudonym. As an indy, I can publish […]
Writing Multiple Novels at One Time
I read this written about elsewhere, and it’s a concept that makes sense for me: When you’re writing a trilogy, you want there to be sub-plots that match up from one book to the next one. Also, you don’t want to make your readers wait a year or more for the next book. To solve […]
Space Opera Examples Part 2
2. Perry Rhodan This is seen as the best-known science fiction series of all time, accounting for more than 2 billion (not a typo) copies sold since its premiere in the 1960s, first creating a buzz in Germany, then being translated worldwide, but not ultimately succeeding in America in English. It was originally published in […]
Space Opera Examples, Part 1
These will all be long, so I’ll cut the post up. 1. Flash Gordon Originally a comic strip in newspapers then made into movie serials, a campy movie in the 80s, as well as a disappointing TV show a few years ago (many pundits have spoken of that already, so I won’t go into that here. […]
Trying to get back on track
I’ve fallen behind on regular posting here for a few weeks. Mea culpa. I’ll try to fix that. My future plans – some dreams not yet a reality – include: guest posts (I’ve invited a few people; now I’ll see if that pays off) an update on my Blogroll (some of my links have been […]
Blogging with Scrivener
I haven’t updated this blog in a while. Hopefully using this app will help. As I’ve stated here a few times, I use a program called Scrivener for organizing my writing in non-fiction and fiction. What I didn’t think of was another aspect of non-fiction: blogging. Now thanks to research on the Web and on […]
Crowdsourcing 201
To begin, there are two pledge levels that I forgot to mention before, but I’ve seen them for nearly every project I’ve joined, so they’re deserving of mention: “$1”: you want to help out, but you just want to “get your feet wet”. For that you can pledge a single buck. It brings no perks […]