Talking Shop

 

At the Writers League of Texas YA to Z Conference with the phenomenally talented Bettina Restrepo and Carrie Ryan.

 

 

Writers’ League of Texas

This April I’ll be flying to Austin to participate in the very cool (and I hope heavily-air-conditioned) Writers’ League of Texas YA A to Z Conference.  Today on the WLT blog I do a quick Q & A about publishing and agenting (and why trees are my mortal enemy).

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What is something that you often see beginning writers doing wrong?

All writers want their characters to be relatable, but too often I see generic everyman protagonists. Their reactions are typical, their personalities flat. They react, rather than propel the action. If I’m going to spend three-hundred pages with a character, I want her to be unique, memorable.

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Read the whole gosh durn thing here.