I’ve been talking about my experience so far after a couple of months sharing my books on Wattpad. Wattpad allows you to tag your stories so interested readers can find them. It was through the tag system I first realized there’s a sub-genre of general and YA fiction revolving around siblings. In most cases, theContinue reading “What’s it like on Wattpad? Part 3”
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What’s it like on Wattpad? Part 2
In my last post I talked about my reasons for using Wattpad, and how my first two books are doing since I started uploading them, chapter by chapter, about 6 weeks ago. I wanted to share a few thoughts about how this method of sharing my books differs on a more personal level with theContinue reading “What’s it like on Wattpad? Part 2”
What’s it like on Wattpad?
In late December I started uploading chapters of Little Sister Song to Wattpad. That story is now complete on the site, and I’ve almost finished uploading Out of Tune (book 2) as well. I thought I’d talk a bit about my reasons for using Wattpad to distribute these books, and my experience so far.
Read Little Sister Song on Wattpad
UPDATE: Little Sister Song is now available for purchase on Amazon. Just a heads-up that Little Sister Song, book 1 of the Wynter Wild series, is now uploaded and complete on Wattpad, a free book platform where books can be serialized. In the future I’ll be releasing the first few books of the Wynter WildContinue reading “Read Little Sister Song on Wattpad”
Pure emotion songs
I know, I know, you disagree! Maybe with all five. But don’t blame me. These are Indio’s “pure emotion” songs, meaning, according to him, they bypass the cerebral cortex and drive directly into the brainstem. The list is guitar-heavy because he’s guitar-heavy. These songs aren’t my “songlist” for writing to—I prefer instrumental music for that.Continue reading “Pure emotion songs”
Personality Typing for Made-Up People
I became fascinated by personality typing years ago. I see personality typing as a model of actual humans, meaning it’s a structure we’ve imposed on the messy natural world in order to understand it, rather than a real thing. For this reason, I think it probably works better on fictional characterization than actual humans. InContinue reading “Personality Typing for Made-Up People”
How do you feel? Writing Emotion
Overusing the ol’ hammering heart? I write that way too. But recently I took a deeper dive into writing emotion via your characters’ thoughts and reactions, rather than via bodily sensations. The Emotion Thesaurus is a wonderful resource and a good starting point, but too much hand-trembling, knee-shaking, and trickling beads of sweat can become exhaustingContinue reading “How do you feel? Writing Emotion”
You’re writing about WHAT?
There’s so much pressure today on writing for the market, writing for your ideal reader, writing for a genre so the publisher feels secure in how to market the book and the bookseller knows where to shelve it. All this is important but let’s not lose sight of why most of us write in theContinue reading “You’re writing about WHAT?”
Little Sister Song
The Wynter Wild series is a story about love, music, family, pancakes, and the occasional igloo. Here’s the blurb for Book 1, Little Sister Song (out in early January 2019)
Introducing my new contemporary series…
For those of you who know me as the author of Song of Scarabaeus (Harper Voyager), thanks for following me to my new home. I write in several genres, from science fiction to middle grade to contemporary family drama. It’s this last one I’m working on right now. The story of Wynter Wild has beenContinue reading “Introducing my new contemporary series…”
Sara Creasy 