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My first proper blog post: http://ravenaguron.blogspot.co.uk/2012/ ... young.html

What to include in books for young adults (being a YA myself I feel I can speak quite comfortably about this topic.)

I just created a new blog (yay!) But boy was it hard to get there! First I tried using wordpress, and created a blog: ravenaguron.wordpress.com But it wouldn't display correctly so I deleted it and tried again. Only the domain ravenaguron was taken so I stuck a random k in the middle of my name. The...

Sounds interesting! I'm guessing a thriller of sorts? Here is what i have: At the met, the friend asks the protagonist to find a woman, and to keep her safe. The friend can't do it because he doesn't want to alert certain interested parties that he is hiding the existence of this woman. The woman is...

I have a new blog! Eeeeeee! Super excited: http://ravenaguron.blogspot.co.uk/

I feel like I've just joined an elite group of awesome people!

Mira wrote: I might search out some vblogs on you-tube that are writing related.

Vblogs! That's what they're called!The name slipped my mind and for some reason I kept thinking web-log

, but not if people are nearby, or especially if they're right behind me.

I love that!

I would recommend simply getting yourself out there, and just becoming part of the writing community. Becoming a familiar face on people's blogs and they might become a familiar face on yours. Also, why are you "blogging?" To network, to make friends, (Nathan had a blog post about this I t...

Thanks for all the love guys!

I would love to make people cry (how awful does that sound?) It shows the reader cares about your characters/ storyline. I've cried because of sad endings before (but they had to be done REALLY well.) The right sad ending kind of haunted me for a while. The wrong one makes me go

This is the first time I can SQUEE! I won a writing competition and got money for it! I got paid to write!

Here's to hoping. We all THINK we have, don't we? The question becomes, is this story, the one that has been rattling in my head since the late 1990s, good enough to do that? I mean, I find it compelling. I liked it enough to have it keep my interest for over a decade. It's the story that made me w...

Well... Top Girls, Caryl Churchill The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams And Still I Rise, Maya Angelou Translations, Brian Friel I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosse...

My characters "look" at everything. They do stuff with their hands, and I tend to describe emotion through their eyes a lot, but my goodness do they "look" at everything, all the time. It's ridiculous. (They also like to "smile", "grin", "glance", a...

Wow, Quite thorough. I realize I am not the intended audience, but the "SAMENESS" of it really seems to be such a drag. They are the same story but the names are changed. I will, however, look at the list you sent and see if I can find something I like. However, this now makes me wonder h...

Yay Claudie and Charlee! Good luck!