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Sunday, November 9, 2014

How We Fall By Kate Brauning

You’re Invited to #YAlaunch! 10 authors+100 books=Giant Book Party

OCTOBER 27, 2014KATEBRAUNING

All book lovers are invited to attend the launch party for How We Fall by Kate Brauning and The Hit List by Nikki Urang on Monday, November 10th, from 6-9pm central time. It’s being broadcast live over video, so you’ll be able to see, hear, and interact with us. 10 YA and adult authors, including Nikki and myself, will be discussing everything from writing a series to movie adaptations. We’ll also be playing games with the audience, taking questions, and giving away 100 books, swag, and even t-shirts! It will be a fun and interactive evening for anyone who loves books and wants to spend some time with great authors.

What: #YAlaunch is a giant book party, with author panel discussions, games, & book giveaways

Why: To celebrate the launch of two new YA novels, and to promote reading, literacy, and other great authors

When: Monday November 10, 6-9pm

Who: Anyone who enjoys books. The party is family-friendly.

Where: Online, live-streamed over video. Click here for the link to the live-stream. To receive updates and to be entered for door prizes, please RSVP here at the Facebook event. Chat on Twitter about the party on the hashtag #YAlaunch.

Authors You’ll Hear Speaking:

Kate Brauning, Entangled Publishing editor and YA author of How We Fall

Nikki Urang, YA author of The Hit List

Nicole Baart, New York Times bestselling author of The Beautiful Daughters (Atria 2015), Sleeping in Eden, & more

Blair Thornburgh, Quirk Books editor and author

Kiersi Burkhart, MG and YA author of the Second Chance Ranch series

Alex Yuschik, YA author multipublished in poetry/literary journals

Kelly Youngblood, faith writer and blogger

Delia Moran, YA author

Bethany Robison, YA author, Month9Books editor, and sports writer

Tosca Lee, New York Times bestselling author of The Legend of Sheba, theBooks of Mortals series with Ted Dekker, and more).

We would love to see you at #YAlaunch! We want this to be as much a giant book party as a launch party, so come meet awesome authors, win amazing books, and see behind the scenes of writing and publishing. We’d love to celebrate with you!

Please do tell your friends, share this post, and invite others to come! The event is open to the public and we’d love your help supporting awesome authors, fantastic books, and the writing community.

See you soon!

Much love,

Kate Brauning and Nikki Urang

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Monday, April 22, 2013

Pixar Challenge: Rule #19

Pixar’s Rule #19

Coincidences to get characters into trouble are great; coincidences to get them out of it are cheating.

Coincidences. Things happen. It isn’t always a long road to the trouble your character gets into and it can just be ‘coincidences’ that put them into this horrible or terrifying situation. If they just coincidentally get out of the situation, you lose too much. You don’t develop your character. The character doesn’t evolve or change or learn. Thing just happen to them and they don’t make anything happen. Where is the fun in that? It is cheating.

Keep it simple. Not words to live by as a writer. Don’t get me wrong it can’t be so complex that the reader throws it down, never to look at it again. You need them invested. Don’t drag them along, slowly tug them by the heart. Make them love the character as much as you do. They need to pull for the characters and yearn to see them succeed. They have to need more and flip pages like they can’t get enough. If things just happen to the character that page flipping frenzy will never happen. The book will be a lump on a coffee table that they just turn their nose up at as they walk past. Writers want people to run to that book ever free moment, sometimes stealing a moment under onn their lap under the table during dinner, that is what we live for.

In a world where, “We want more. We want more…” We need people to want more of our writing, more from our characters, and more of our books. That is the best. That is the thing I am striving for, and I hope it happens soon.

Are you cheating as a writer? Are you cheating your readers?

Also, all of you should check out the posts from my blogging friends who are doing this challenge with me! The first posts go up today. Links to Kate Brauning, Talynn Lynn, Mary Pat, and Alex Yuschik’s blogs are located on the side bar.

We’d love to see comments on our post and share anything you enjoy. Thank you for reading!

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Pixar Challenge: Rule #18

Pixar’s Rule #18

You have to know yourself: the difference between doing your best & fussing. Story is testing, not refining.

I think this rule is for the obsessive compulsive perfectionist in all of us. We write and rewrite. Of course we need to edit and revise, but we don’t need to pick a story apart until we are left with bare bones. The juice is in the meat—leave some. You have to know yourself and your personality so that you recognize when you’re being obsessive. You need to know yourself enough to say, “Okay, I need to back off. This is really good.” You have to pull out some confidence. You have to know YOU. So don’t go back and cut and cut and pick until you don’t have any of the good stuff. Just set it down and walk away. There has to be that point that you don’t change anything. It great, so don’t go it back to good.

Testing Not Refining. I think you should test to see if the work is stands true. But you don’t have to cut until there are absolutely no flaws. Flaws can be enduring.

Do you know yourself?

We’d love to see comments on our post and share anything you enjoy. Thank you for reading!

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