by Denise Vega | October 11, 2013 | Novels
Today we’ll be looking at Finn Finnegan by author Darby Karchut. Let’s look at what Darby does to hook us on the first page of this novel. The Page “Son of a goat!” The boy swore and jumped back. A second squirt of bird poop landed with a...
by Denise Vega | September 13, 2013 | Novels
Today we’ll be looking at When My Name was Keoko by Newbery winning author Linda Sue Park (who is also the keynote speaker at the Rocky Mtn Chapter SCBWI Fall Conference Sept 28-29). Let’s look at what Linda does to hook us on the first page of this novel....
by Denise Vega | August 9, 2013 | Novels
Today we’ll be looking at The Language Inside by author Holly Thompson. Let’s look at what Holly does to hook us on the first page of this novel. The Page Aura third time it happens I’m crossing the bridge over a brown-green race of water that slides...
by Denise Vega | July 23, 2013 | Writing Inspiration
I’m big on re-visioning and always make the point in the classes I teach that revision isn’t just changing a word here or there or moving a paragraph. It’s re-visioning your story, seeing it from a different angle, reshaping it into something new....
by Denise Vega | July 19, 2013 | Novels, Writer Tips & Tools
If you’ve kept up with my blog, you know I’m a big fan of agent Donald Maass and his books on writing. (See “Writer’s Studio: Adding Tension to a Scene” and “Writer’s Studio: Constructing a Scene.”) I recently finished...
