Elise L. Blake
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Elise is a full-time writing coach and novelist. She is a recent college graduate from Southern New Hampshire University where she earned her BA in Creative Writing.
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Common Mistakes to Avoid When Writing Y.A Fiction
Every genre comes with a list of common mistakes that are easy to overlook when writing your young adult novel. Just because your novel is for a younger audience doesn't make it any easier to write. A young adult novel takes the same amount of time, dedication, and challenges that are seen in novels geared towards adults.
By Elise L. Blake4 years ago in Journal
5 Reasons Writers Should Always Carry a Notebook
--- A notebook. A tool that is so simple yet some of us haven't purchased one since the days of back-to-school sales and picking out the spiral notebooks with our favorite character boldly printed on the front. Or if you were my mother you only bought the thirty-cent notebooks because you knew one of your children would be writing stories in them and the other three would either doodle in or lose theirs.
By Elise L. Blake4 years ago in Journal
How To Plan Your Novel Using The Three-Act Structure. Top Story - June 2022.
Outlining your novel can be one of the most stressful parts of writing. Though it's not a necessary step in the writing process it can help you keep the details of your story in one place.
By Elise L. Blake4 years ago in Journal
How to Deal with Writing Criticism
Criticism is one of the hardest things a writer may have to face other than starting a blank page. However, criticism and advice are one of the things that an author needs to help them with their craft. We're sometimes too close to our stories to look at them objectively. We spend weeks, months, and sometimes years living with these stories and characters in our heads until they become a part of us or something akin to our children.
By Elise L. Blake4 years ago in Journal
Young Adult vs New Adult: What's the difference?
However close these two genres may be, you don't want to make the mistake of submitting your new adult novel to a publisher that is looking for a young adult submission or the opposite… unless you're looking for an instant rejection.
By Elise L. Blake4 years ago in Journal
