CBI Challenge: Video Chat – Laura on Creating Your Protaganist’s Backstory
Sep 2nd, 2009 | By Laura Backes
Here’s Laura with some quick and powerful tips to provide your main character with a compelling history.
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Module 5 – This Month’s Character Building Exercises
Sep 2nd, 2009 | By Laura Backes
Get your brain cells jumping with these fun exercises from the CBI Clubhouse. This month: developing your main character.
CBI Challenge – Video Chat: Animals or Inanimate Objects as Main Characters
Sep 2nd, 2009 | By Laura Backes
How do you develop a main character that isn’t exactly human? Laura’s got the answer for you!
The Single Most Important Obstacle Writers Need to Overcome is….
Aug 27th, 2009 | By Laura Backes
Laura interviews acclaimed editor Stephen Roxburgh. Read his advice for aspiring authors!
Writing Exercises – The Four Questions of Character
Aug 3rd, 2009 | By Laura BackesFor your own story idea: Identify your main character, and answer these four questions: What does your character want? Why does he/she want this? What’s standing in his/her way? What are the consequences of your character getting what he/she wants? Brainstorm many possibilities for each question and mix and
Pull a Character and Plot from Your Idea
Aug 3rd, 2009 | By Laura BackesSo far in The CBI Challenge we’ve brainstormed ideas, tested those ideas to see if they were sound and what age group they might work for, and made time in our routine to write. We’re still brainstorming this month, but now we’ll focus on pulling some specific building blocks
Writing For the Expanding Tween Market (includes Podcast)
Jul 28th, 2009 | By Laura Backes
Publishers are actively targeting the “tween” market. Here’s how write for this lively and responsive audience.
Writing Exercise: Make It Rain!
Jul 20th, 2009 | By Laura Backes
Laura’s got a fun writing exercise that’s perfect for a rainy day (or a sunny one…or a cloudy one…)
Laura on Arranging Your “Heirarchy of Values”
Jul 1st, 2009 | By Laura Backes
From Module 3 of the CBI Challenge, a powerful method to get organized….and get writing!
Flex Your Muscles & Let’s Go!
Jul 1st, 2009 | By Laura Backes
Here are some fun exercises to get you in the writing habit.
Bonus Video: Multimedia Ideas You Can Use On Your Own Site
Jul 1st, 2009 | By Laura Backes
As a followup to this month’s CBI piece on multimedia, Laura visits two publisher websites to show how you can spiff up your own site with some cool visitor-friendly ideas.
Bonus Video: A Bonanza of Writing Exercises!
Jul 1st, 2009 | By Laura Backes
Exercises are fabulous ways to get into the writing groove. Join Laura as she visits two great sites packed with exercise goodness!
Laura Visits Stone Arch Books
Jun 15th, 2009 | By Laura Backes
Join Laura for a video tour through the site of Stone Arch Books, publisher of graphic novels and chapter books. Learn the ins and outs of submitting to this excellent publisher!
