by Laura Brooke Robson | Feb 8, 2020 | Archives
Let me title your YA book using love and zodiac science. Click the image to see it full size. I hope you’re all Cancers who really love your local Capricorns. Part Two...
by Laura Brooke Robson | Feb 2, 2020 | Archives
Of my various skills (loud tongue clicks, beating my brother at Dominion, exercising while drinking carbonated water), none shines more brightly than my ability to dodge the question, “What’s your book about?” I talk about my book a lot in the...
by Laura Brooke Robson | Dec 2, 2019 | Archives
As a certified Internet User™, I’ve seen a lot of re-spellings of the word “women” recently. Wimmin, womyn, and womxn 1Womxn, in particular, aims not just to deemphasize the suffix -man but to specifically include transgender people and people of color, which wimmin...
by Laura Brooke Robson | Nov 17, 2019 | Archives, Editing, Writing
In rewriting my book for the seventeenth time, I realized that I will go to extreme lengths to avoid certain difficult rules of grammar and syntax. I would rather rewrite the whole paragraph than choose between “It is me” and “It is I.” 9For the record, it’s “It is I”...
by Laura Brooke Robson | Aug 5, 2018 | Drafting, Writing
For more on writing motivated characters, check out this post on the difference between internal and external motivations. All my favorite stories are character-driven. Oh, sure, you can write an action-packed tale of car chases and dragon slaying and all the...
