by Denise Vega | April 3, 2015 | Writing Inspiration
In 2002, I finished a novel that I absolutely loved and turned it into my critique group. It had started out as a 13-chapter middle school book called My Own Two Feet and morphed into a 31-chapter book (yes, 13 transposed!) called Click Here (to find out how i...
by Denise Vega | May 29, 2013 | Fact of Life #31, Writing Inspiration
For me, revision is all about re-visioning the work–seeing scenes in a different way, changing them, moving them around and sometimes even removing them altogether. Below is a collection of scenes that didn’t make the final cut. If you’ve read the...
by Denise Vega | May 27, 2013 | Fact of Life #31, Writing Inspiration
I had a lot of fun working on the Buchanan Field Report when I was writing the book. If you haven’t read it, the Buchanan Field Report (aka the BFR) is a notebook that Kat’s best friend, Christy Buchanan, keeps. It’s kind of like a mini tabloid,...
by Denise Vega | May 23, 2013 | Fact of Life #31, Writing Inspiration
I’m absolutely THRILLED to announce an original e-short story related to Fact of Life #31! The story is called “Kat Flynn’s Guide to Getting Over a Crush” and works a little bit like a prequel to the novel, though not precisely (if I’d...
by Denise Vega | May 22, 2013 | Writing Inspiration
When Fact of Life #31 first came out, my sister, Michelle, used it for her book club and the group really liked it. I think many of them were surprised at how much fun reading a YA book could be. Of course now there are lots of adults reading YA fiction which is...
