by Denise Vega | March 31, 2016 | Writing Inspiration
To me, knowing when you’re story is finished–that is, ready to go to your critique group or an agent or editor–is the $64,000 question. How do we know? In one of my Find a Publisher training series videos, I present a checklist that helps me...
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 | July 5, 2006 | Writing Inspiration
I attended the RMC-SCBWI summer retreat with author Randy Powell. I wanted to get back to the Click Here “unsequel” because I’d finished the revisions for Fact of Life #31 (FOL) and was ready to get back to it. Randy suggested a “road...
by Denise Vega | January 10, 2006 | Writing Inspiration
I’ve decided it might be fun to chronicle the experience I’m having writing CH2, aka the unsequel. Yesterday I was so happy because I’d finished a second chapter. Today I was trying to write the third chapter and nothing was coming. I thought to...
