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10 Tips to Draft Your Novel Fast

10 Tips to Draft Your Novel Fast

Writing for Adults BlogBy Kelli PaniqueNovember 28, 2022Leave a comment

With the right strategy, you can draft your novel fast. Use these 10 tips to finish your book quickly and with less stress.

Become a Novelist This November

Become a Novelist This November

Writing for Adults BlogBy Kelli PaniqueNovember 15, 2022Leave a comment

If you want to become a novelist, then NaNoWriMo is the challenge for you. Get encouragement to meet your word count goals while writing a novel in a month.

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Faith Beuligmann

Contest WinnersBy Maggie McCloskeyJune 21, 2021Leave a comment

Contest: YA Fantasy First Pages | 2nd place
Wind Weaver

August 14, 2020

3421 ICL Breaking Down Science Fiction To Find Your Place

Breaking Down Science Fiction To Find Your Place | IFW

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueMarch 4, 2021Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Science fiction is the marriage of science and imagination. The genre has been popular in film, television, graphic novels and fiction for young people (mostly middle grade and up). It is a…

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NaNoWriMo: The Home Stretch

Writing for Adults BlogBy Kelli PaniqueNovember 24, 2020Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Hello NaNoWriMo-ers! You are word writing warriors. The end is in sight. Don’t slow down now. It’s almost over. By the end of today, you should have 40,008 words done on your…

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NaNoWriMo: Synopsis and the Sagging Middle | IFW

Writing for Adults BlogBy Kelli PaniqueNovember 17, 20202 Comments

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Hello NaNoWriMo-ers! You are on the way. You’ve past the halfway mark of the month of November and are heading down the home stretch. How’s that for scary? (Or exciting!) By the…

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NaNoWriMo: Out of the Gate, Getting Into the Zone | IFW

Writing for Adults BlogBy Kelli PaniqueNovember 3, 2020Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > For NaNoWriMo participants, November 3rd is the day their novel hits 5,001 words. NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month and it’s when thousands (millions?) of people all over the world pledge…

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Something Wicked, Weird, and Spooky This Way Comes | IFW

Writing for Adults BlogBy Kelli PaniqueOctober 27, 20201 Comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Examples for Building a Supernatural Mystery or Paranormal Mystery Saying a mystery is about something unknown takes on a new meaning when it comes to supernatural and paranormal mysteries. Supernatural means anything…

10222020 ICL Mystery Sidekicks

Mystery Sidekicks

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueOctober 22, 2020Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > The sidekick, a character who supports the main character, is almost as much a part of a good mystery as the detective. The sidekick gives the detective someone to discuss the case…

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Mystery Detectives

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueOctober 15, 2020Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Any fan of mysteries would be happy to tell you that mystery detectives come in all shapes and forms. Some are detectives because they want to be like Sherlock Holmes, Encyclopedia Brown,…

1082020 ICL Follow That Clue

Follow That Clue!

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueOctober 8, 2020Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > The Clue-Theory-Test Method of Plotting Mysteries For many writers trying mystery writing for the first time, one of the things that feel the hardest is leaving clues for the reader. So let’s…

1012020 ICL Mystery For Young Children

Mystery For Young Children

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueOctober 1, 2020Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Basically every book I write is an adventure story or a mystery, and many are both. By definition, a mystery involves a puzzle with someone trying to solve the puzzle. For adults,…

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Writing a Holiday Romance

Writing for Adults BlogBy Kelli PaniqueSeptember 29, 20201 Comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > If you decide to write a holiday-themed romance, the first thing you need to do is decide if you want to self-publish it or if you want to go the traditional route.…

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Love Scenes: Spicy or Sweet?

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueSeptember 24, 2020Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > One of the issues with writing romance in young adult novels lies in the question of how far to push the love scenes. Do you stop at the kiss and fade to…

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Conflict Is So Romantic

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueSeptember 17, 2020Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Like any strong story, romance needs conflict. Without conflict, romantic stories can be dully predictable. After all, the vast majority of romances end with the characters together. Readers are confident that will…

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Open or Closed Door Sex Scenes

Writing for Adults BlogBy Kelli PaniqueSeptember 15, 20201 Comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > After choosing which sub-genre of romance novel you want to write, the next thing you have to decide is your heat level. In some cases like Inspirational Romance and Amish Romance, you’ll…

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Characters Make the Romance

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueSeptember 10, 2020Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > With romance such an important element of YA novels, it can be easy to focus all the attention on creating the main character, only to give the second romantic lead less attention…

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Working the Romance Tropes

Writing for Adults BlogBy Kelli PaniqueSeptember 8, 20202 Comments

By adhering to the trope rules of the romance sub-genre, you automatically are one step ahead of authors who don’t pay attention to what readers expect.

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Romance Writing is Serious Business

Writing for Adults BlogBy Kelli PaniqueSeptember 1, 2020Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Avid romance novel readers have made the romance genre a billion dollar industry. But romance novels have come a long way since Pamela fended off Mr. B’s sexual harassment until he proposed…

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Corinne Mordaunt

Published GradsBy Maggie McCloskeyAugust 28, 2020Leave a comment

Keep the Light Burning

August 28, 2020

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