Category: novel writing
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Suzanne Collins must be really friggin’ old: dialogue in The Hunger Games
I want to start by saying that I like Katniss. Some people don’t like her, and by some people, I mean my good friend Jacob Swanson. What’s most important here to note is that Jacob has proven to be wrong about women in the past. His first opinion of me was that I was “probably…
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pants on fire: a blueprint.
Title: Pants on Fire (or possibly, Just Another Opus) Genre: Bildungsroman/Künstlerroman-ish; coming-of age, but with slightly older characters than is typical of this genre (aka, I’m not really sure right now) POV Specification: Third Person, Omniscient (but withholds some information) Estimated Length of Book/Number of Sparks: 50,000 words/ 3 story sparks High-Concept Blurb: Sam Kroeger…
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time’s a goon.
Let’s talk about A Visit from the Goon Squad, which I just finished reading for one of my classes this semester–my novel-writing course, in fact. I have mixed emotions about this novel in the same way you have mixed emotions watching a dog perform acrobatics: you’re not quite sure what the hell you’re bearing witness to…
like the island 