C.B. Lee's Blog, page 92
February 20, 2016
Character Development & The Second Draft
Fine tuning your characters is an important part of editing. It can be hard to figure out what’s wrong with your characters and difficult to look at them critically, but it’s something you have to do.
If you want to improve your characters during the second draft, keep these things in mind:
Motivations
Your character’s motivations can change, but they should make sense considering what your character is going through. If your character is trying to rescue their mother, for...
February 19, 2016
"If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to..."
- Toni Morrison, the celebrated author of Beloved, The Bluest Eye, and most recently, 2015’s God Help the Child, who turns 85 today.
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Back to Basics: Writing a Novel Synopsis
It’s probably the single most despised document you might be asked to prepare: the synopsis. The synopsis is sometimes required because an agent or publisher wants to see, from beginning to end, what happens in your story. Thus, the synopsis must convey a book’s entire narrative arc. It shows what happens and who changes, and it has to reveal the ending.
Don’t confuse the synopsis with sales copy—the kind of material that might appear on yo...
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Writing: Creating Your Plot
The holy trinity of writing, so to speak, is good plot, good characters, and good language control. Let’s focus on plot for a little bit.
Having a plot is first and foremost in writing a story. The plot is best defined as “the problem the story’s characters have to solve.” Therefore, you can’t write a story without one. If you’ve brainstormed and have a great idea for a character, a setting, or a theme, that’s all well and good, but you don’t have a story unless there’s an obje...
February 18, 2016
Adidas Encourages Star Athletes to Come Out With New Contract Clause | Advocate.com
The world’s second largest sportswear company is shaking up the sports industry by being the first company to guarantee they will not terminate any endorsement deals if the athlete comes out as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender. Adidas made the announcement Thursday at a sports conference in England, according to BuzzFeed News.
“Adidas acknowledges and adheres to the principles of diversity, as...
brushstrokesandshutterclicks:Just one example of the gorgeous...
Just one example of the gorgeous stained glass / painted glass work of Herefordshire artist and illustrator Tamsin Abbott. Tamsin’s husband is also a talented artisan, working masterfully with wood. He runs chair-making courses. Tamsin is one of the Sisterhood of Ruralists, along with Hannah Willow, Catherine Hyde and Jackie Morris.
The Diversity Baseline Survey: What Happens Next?
What Happens Next After the Diversity Baseline Survey?
External imageSince its release, the Diversity Baseline Survey (DBS) has become the most visited blog post we have ever produced. The DBS has been widely read and written about, and has opened up a renewed interest in how to improve staff diversity in the publishing industry. In our first piece, Behind the Scenes of Publishing’s First Diversity Baseline Survey, we covered the methodology and obstacles we faced…
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In the height of the Prohibition era,...
In the height of the Prohibition era, recent Yale graduate Heath Johnson falls for Art, the proprietor of a unique speakeasy tucked away beneath the streets of Manhattan where men are free to explore their sexuality. When Art’s sanctuary is raided, Heath is forced to choose between love and the structured life his parents planned for him.
Speakeasy by @suzeysays is available through @interludepress from February 18th!
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