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March 30, 2015
Revolutionary Hearts is LIVE!
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Parineeta Singh has always known her purpose in life: to help exact revenge on the invading British and free India. She becomes a maid for General Carton in order to supply information to her brothers Indian revolutionary group. But when her employer is exposed as...
March 23, 2015
How to Stay Motivated During the Writing Process
One of the hardest parts about writing is the motivation aspect. How do you keep going and stay inspired even when you face rejection or lack of time? That’s why I’ve assembled this quick list of how to stay motivated during all parts of the writing process! Hopefully the tips below will help you just as much as they helped me.
1. Turn your ‘shoulds’ into ‘musts’.It’s helpful to make a list of all the things you keep telling yourself you ‘should’ do. Chances are that the list is longer than...
March 15, 2015
How to begin your novel: Start with the action!
How should you begin your novel? The best way is to start with the action!
This is a concept that’s taken memanystories to understand. When writing my first draft ofOne Last Letter, I included a flashback scene that showed Jesse and Evelyn as young teenagers. They were making a promise to one another to stay together forever. It was a great scene and I loved it and then when I was editing with Crimson Romance’s brilliant editor Julie Sturgeon, she said: “This has gotta go.”
To be honest, the...
March 8, 2015
Romance fan? Advanced Reader Copies of Revolutionary Hearts are available for review
For all interested book bloggers, book reviewers, or just a general lovers of historical romance: I’m excited to announce Advanced Reader Copies of Revolutionary Hearts are now available for��review!
Thanks to the amazing Crimson Romance team, my novella is finally in the last production stages and will be released by the end of March. (March 30, to be exact.) Till then, I’m on the look-out for some awesome reviewers who would be interested in reading the novella. You can post the review to yo...
March 2, 2015
My Secret Weapon? Audio Inspiration and Writing Podcasts
���Writing is a marathon, not a sprint.��� But it certainly doesn���t hurt to get a shot of motivation every once and a while. The three podcasts below have helped me so much as a writer over the past few months. Whether you���re looking for plot development tips or general information about how to publish your work, these podcasts can work wonders. Next time you���re feeling a serious lack of motivation, just listen to one of the following podcasts for valuable information and writing inspir...
January 10, 2015
Write More Now! (How I started writing more in less time)
It’s been an amazing winter break, full of rest and finally finding more time to do things I enjoy (reading! writing! spending way too much time browsing random Mashable articles!). But with my college semester beginning in a week and the threat of a rigid schedule looming ahead of me once more, it’s time to make a game plan for finding more time to accomplish my writing goals��with less time on my hands.
Mainly, the realization I’ve come to over the past few weeks is that writing requires ser...
December 29, 2014
Writing Isn’t For You
More than a year ago, I readSeth Adam Smith’s “Marriage Isn’t For You” article and loved it. (And for those of you who haven’t read it, I recommend clicking the link.) In the article, Seth’s dad tells him, “You don’t marry to make yourself happy, you marry to make someone else happy.” What if the same concept applied to writing? If we played a bit of Mad Libs here with the sentence: “You don’t write to make yourself happy, you write to make someone else happy.”
I’ve often wondered whether writ...
December 24, 2014
My top three editing tips & tricks {Read, Identify, and Question}
First of all, happy holidays to everyone! The past month has been crazy busy, with finishing up the semester and taking my finals and juggling on-campus jobs and… Well, the craziness has slowed down for a bit. Thank goodness for Winter Break and (best of all) thank goodness for more writing, reading, and editing time.
Yes, I said editing time. I’ve been working on edits for a historical romance novella, and as soon as that project wraps up I’ll be working on edits for the contemporary New Adu...
November 8, 2014
Brand names, trademarks, and contemporary conundrums
For realistic fiction writers, brand names tend to slip into our writing. While editing my YA contemporary thriller and currently my NA contemporary romance, I ran into issues with brand names. Was I allowed to use them? Could I really be sued?After research into how to use brand names in fiction, I’ve compiled five general guidelines for using trademarks. Note that the tips below aren’t hard and fast rules, but they should be taken into consideration when writing your next contemporary piece...
October 10, 2014
On Positivity, Publication, and Pushing Forward
Publication as a teen isn’t impossible, but like any endeavor, it isn’t easy. I want others out there to know that you don’t need to wait to pursue your dreams of publication – but you should also remember the importance of positivity and continuing on even when the road ahead seems bleak.
Growing up, I was always writing. My stories would become longer and longer, until one day they were novel length. And like most writers, I was a voracious reader. While stories of teen authors were far and...
