by DianneSalerni | May 27, 2015 | caged graves, The Eighth Day, WIP, writing
I’m writing this blog post to comfort myself more than to inform you, although I hope you might find it informative anyway … or maybe comforting. I’ve come to see this blog as the closest thing I have to a diary, and I often look back through old posts for...
by DianneSalerni | Mar 25, 2015 | guest post, writing
I’d like to introduce all my blog readers to Jenn Hubbard, an author I know “in real life” and a fellow member of the KidLit Authors Club, with whom I frequently do events. Jenn is a YA author, but today she’s here to talk about a new...
by DianneSalerni | Mar 23, 2015 | WIP, writing, writing process
I was feeling pretty low this weekend, uninspired and uncreative. I’m working on a first draft of something, and it’s really rough. I also didn’t feel like blogging. So I decided to cheat and look back in my files for something I could recycle. I...
by Dianne Salerni | Mar 18, 2015 | WIP, writing, writing process
I was greatly saddened and discouraged last week to see an author tear down another author over how she interpreted his remark in an interview – while a bunch of people dogpiled on, waving pitchforks. (Excuse the mixed metaphor.) I’m not going to provide links or...
by DianneSalerni | Jan 19, 2015 | writing
This is a bit of a cheat, since I’m recycling a recent post from Project Middle Grade Mayhem. But this was well received by readers, and although I wrote it specifically for MG writers, I believe it has relevance to writing for other audiences. I recently...
by DianneSalerni | Jan 5, 2015 | writing
For my first post of 2015, I’d like to extend my sincere thanks to Thesaurus.com for junking up their site. I had gotten lazy, and it was their excessive trashiness that snapped me out of it. In high school, I was the nerd who wrote stories in notebooks all the time...