by Denise Vega | August 21, 2013 | Writer Tips & Tools
Last week I talked about sending out your manuscript too soon and in the classes I teach where we talk about submitting, I have a checklist that I share to help writers decide when their manuscripts are ready to send out and it’s something I use myself (though...
by Denise Vega | August 16, 2013 | Writing Inspiration
Last week I wrote about reshaping a story into something completely new (Friday Focus: Reshaping Your Story). The fact that I was so focused on writing my story as a picture book that I couldn’t conceive of it as anything else was keeping me from making real...
by Denise Vega | July 23, 2013 | Writing Inspiration
I’m big on re-visioning and always make the point in the classes I teach that revision isn’t just changing a word here or there or moving a paragraph. It’s re-visioning your story, seeing it from a different angle, reshaping it into something new....
by Denise Vega | July 19, 2013 | Novels, Writer Tips & Tools
If you’ve kept up with my blog, you know I’m a big fan of agent Donald Maass and his books on writing. (See “Writer’s Studio: Adding Tension to a Scene” and “Writer’s Studio: Constructing a Scene.”) I recently finished...
by Denise Vega | July 5, 2013 | Writing Inspiration
Last week I used the “gremlin” idea–or inner critic–from Create Your Writer’s Life by Cynthia Morris. This week I want to look at another idea she brings up–discovering your writing purpose and living it out. I’ve always been...
