Today, at The Writing Barn blog, we welcome picture book author, novelist, teacher and poet, Shutta Crum to discuss intention. Our own as writers and of course, our characters. Opening the […]
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Craft Talk Tuesday with Meredith Davis
Posted onWriting Barn friends, you are in for a major treat today as Meredith Davis joins us for an in-depth discussion of how to handle “time”in our novels. She covers everything […]
Continue ReadingWhat My Last Book Taught Me, with author A.J. Paquette (Agent, Ammi Joan Paquette)
Posted onIt’s an honor to have author/agent A.J. Paquette drop by The Writing Barn blog today for our What My Last Book Taught Me series. Joan, as she is known to […]
Continue ReadingWhat My Last Book Taught Me Wednesday with author PJ Hoover
Posted onHi! P. J. Hoover here, author of the upcoming dystopian/mythology YA novel, Solstice (Tor Teen, June 18, 2013), and today I am thrilled to be blogging here at the […]
Continue ReadingWhat My Last Book Taught Me with Lisa Jahn Clough, author of Nothing But Blue
Posted onIt’s my pleasure today to welcome Lisa Jahn Clough to The Writing Barn blog. When I was a student at VCFA getting my MFA, Lisa was on faculty (now, she […]
Continue ReadingCraft Talk Tuesday: Voice in The Sweet Dead Life by Joy Preble
Posted onVoice in The Sweet Dead Life In The Sweet Dead Life (May 2013, Soho Press) and its sequel, The A Word (May 2014, Soho Press), narrator of Jenna Samuels, 14 […]
Continue ReadingSummer Session: Writing for the Tween & Teen Markets with award-winning author Shana Burg
Posted onWriting for Tween and Teen Markets with Shana Burg Have you always have wanted to write for young readers but aren’t sure where to begin? Or do you have a […]
Continue ReadingUsing Setting to Establish Character, with Writing Barn instructor Michael Noll
Posted onToday Michael Noll, who is teaching Read Well, Write Better with us at The Writing Barn on June 1st, shares with us a writing exercise based around examining a scene from Fitzgerald’s […]
Continue ReadingWhat My Last Book Taught Me Wednesday with Janet Fox, author of Sirens
Posted onLaunching our What My Last Book Taught Me Wednesday blog series is the lovely and talented Janet Fox. Janet stayed with us at The Writing Barn this past January when […]
Continue ReadingCraft Talk Tuesday with Carol Brendler
Posted onWelcome to Craft Talk Tuesday! Once or twice a month, The Writing Barn, will be posting in-depth essays on craft issues on Tuesday’s–waalah–that’s how we came up with the CTT […]
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