These are writers’ resource links I’ve found helpful and/or interesting for August 14th through September 19th: Em and En – Tearing Down That Wall | Magical Words – How-to about grape/cluster brainstorming By Request: A Post About Plotting | Magical Words – re: Character driven plotting Writing the Basics. Sentence Structure, Paragraph Structure and Why…
Review: The Black Prism by Brent Weeks
There is so much to address about The Black Prism. We have a very ambitious new fantasy world, a unique and fairly complicated magic system, an interesting political set-up, and some pretty ambiguous characters. The Black Prism [is] a spicy recipe for a series that I will definitely be lining up to finish.
Laurie Halse Anderson’s SPEAK
This is the situation: Some guy thinks a rape scene is pornography, and wants to keep the book out of the hands of “impressionable teenagers”. Myra McEntire has already said everything that I was thinking about on the subject. (McEntire has a YA of her own, due to be released in May of 2011, which…
WordPress Multi Site Domain Mapping on Shared Hosting
Before you start, you’ll need: WordPress installed in your root directory. To follow these directions from the Codex to enable Multi-Site. The WordPress MU Domain Mapping Plugin – trunk version – from step 1 of this tutorial. Follow the instructions for steps 1-3 there to enable the plugin and get it working. Step #4 is…
Review: The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff
A macabre hyperbole of teenage existence… The Replacement is an excellent coming-of-age, finding-yourself tale for the YA crowd, with just the right amount of teenage angst – making it compelling to adults rather than annoying.