Writerly Things 7/27/2020: Back to the Basics Traci Kenworth How many have you been away from your writing life for a while? The Covid-19 shut down shop for more than just regular jobs across the world. It took it’s toll on writing as well. So how do we get back to where we were? Draw […]
Tag: YA
Book Talk 7/24/2020 Traci Kenworth
What I’m reading in YA: Sightwitch by Susan Dennard, How to Write a Children’s Book by The Institute of Children’s Literature, The Book of Dust by Phillip Pullman, The Girl from the Well by Rin Chupeco, A Heart So Fierce & Broken by Brigid Kemmerer, Heir to Fire by Sarah J. Maas, and Through the […]
Writerly Things 7/20/2020 Traci Kenworth
Writerly Things 7/20/2020: When Things Unravel, You Make New Plans Traci Kenworth Oftentimes, in the midst of life when major changes occur, we stumble and try to find an even keel. We’re not quite sure if we should go on with things the way they were before. Change radically. Or fall somewhere in between. This […]
Five Links 7/18/2020 Traci Kenworth
Five Links 7/18/2020 Traci Kenworth Writing: 1. https://www.livewritethrive.com/2020/07/13/keep-pressing-on-no-matter-what/ “Today’s guest post is by Kristina Naydonova, twelve years old Why is it that we don’t believe in ourselves? Are we too scared to know what it feels like to hit a wall of failure? Do we feel the need to bring ourselves down for validation? Allow […]
Book Talk 7/17/2020 Traci Kenworth
I found a e-reader to work with my phone! It’s called PocketBook. I haven’t tried downloading from Netgalley yet but it says it works with it. I don’t know if the ones I had are still available to me or if I’ll have to start over. So far, it’s letting me read Where There Be […]
Book Talk 7/3/2020 Traci Kenworth
Nothing this week. Bestselling Books. Home Comforts. My First Learn to Write Workbook. If Animals Kissed Good Night. Humans. Between the World and Me. 28 Summers. We’re the Different, We’re the Same. Just Mercy. School Zone. Kindergarten Here I Come.
Five Links 6/27/2020 Traci Kenworth
Five Links 6/27/2020 Traci Kenworth Writing: 1. https://killzoneblog.com/2020/06/why-im-writing-40s-style-pulp.html “In the comments to last Tuesday’s post, Kris asked me about the series of pulp-style stories I’m doing for my Patreon community. It doesn’t take much prompting to get a writer to talk about his work, now does it? So here I go. My parents were friends with one […]
Writerly Things 6/22/2020 Traci Kenworth
Writerly Things 6/22/2020: Does War Bring Out the Best in Our Characters? Traci Kenworth You’ve seem numerous battle scenes. Men and women walking toward their doom or into victory. The question is: does war bring out the best in our characters? Does It Make Them Stronger Individuals? For some perhaps. Others, it makes cowards of. […]
Book Talk 6/18/2020 Traci Kenworth
Nothing this week.
Book Talk 6/12/2020 Sarah J. Maas’s Crown of Midnight Traci Kenworth
Book Talk 6/12/2020: Sarah J. Maas’s Crown of Midnight Traci Kenworth Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas A Throne of Glass Novel Bloomsbury August 2013. Amazon’s blurb: She is the greatest assassin her world has ever known.But where will her conscience, and her heart, lead her? After a year of hard labor in the […]
Where Genres Collide Traci Kenworth YA Author 