Tag Archives: Cara McKenna

How To Be An Author

Posted on April 5, 2013 by

There’s so much of this advice out there. Blog posts. Craft books. Workshops and lectures. We pay for it, we go in search of it. Sometimes it finds us, when we’d rather not be pondering whether or not we’re currently … Continue reading →

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Bad-Idea Heroes (No, Like, Really Bad)

Posted on March 21, 2013 by

Today’s post is going to be a self-indulgent talk therapy session. I apologize in advance. But I’m having one of those writer weeks, the kind where self-doubt is an itchy, wet sweater, weighing you down and making you twitch, and … Continue reading →

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Why on Earth I Liked Young Adult

Posted on February 26, 2013 by

Perhaps a month ago, I watched Young Adult. It’s a 2011 comedy starring Charlize Theron as Mavis Gary, a self-destructive YA fiction ghostwriter (think Sweet Valley High) who at thirty-seven decides, pretty much out of the blue, to go home … Continue reading →

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