The CIBAs 2022 GERTRUDE WARNER Book Awards for Middle Grade Fiction – The Short List
The Competition Heats up in Middle Grade Fiction for the Gertrude Warner Award Short List! Congratulations to all authors who advanced!
The Competition Heats up in Middle Grade Fiction for the Gertrude Warner Award Short List! Congratulations to all authors who advanced!
Books for Middle Graders are more important than ever. The excitement builds with the CIBA Announcement with the 2022 Gertrude Warner CIBAs Long List!
Finding and choosing the best words to convey your thoughts more exactly are crucial to the editing process. A Chanticleer Writer's Toolbox post.
Looking to write great Middle Grade Books? Start here! The Gertrude Warner Middle-grade Book Awards are open until the end of September!
The passionate ideas come when the critic in our mind is silenced. Go ahead, Fall in Love with Your Story! Pour your heart and soul into the rough draft with reckless abandon--whether or not you NaNoWriMo.
Secondary Characters. They can drive their co-stars crazy and they can also drive the plot. They can star in their own subplots and often support the protagonist’s goals. Or thwart the protagonist’s goals.
Nothing kills a book faster than never finishing that initial draft. Michelle Rene, multi-award winning, published author shares her secrets to crossing the Finish Line of writing a story. NaNoWriMo or Not!
Whether or Not you participate in NaNoWriMo, you will find these suggestions and tips on How to UnSpool Your Story - BRAINSTORMING Tips for Your Next Work, from top editor Jessica Morrell, will be useful additions to your writer's toolbox.
What you name your characters is a critical part to your story development. It may well be the focal point of what makes your work resonate in your readers' minds.
The right choice of words and vocabulary create subtext in fiction works making them compelling and memorable. Read on for examples by Michelle Cox, Wendy Delaney, Kerry Greenwood, J.K.Rowling, Shakespeare, George R.R. Martin, and others.